Plum Bun
A Novel without a Moral
$41.32
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
For readers of The Vanishing Half, a hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City.
Originally published in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young Black woman of mixed heritage who uses the advantages of her lighter skin to escape her own life. Beginning with a childhood in her Black middle-class Philadelphia neighbo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807006603 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807006602 |
| Author: | Morgan Jerkins, Jessi Redmon Fauset |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
“A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. A force to be reckoned with. She. Was. Amazing.”
—Shonda Rhimes
“One gets, with thought and study, lights on human character. The book is, therefore, well worth reading: not simply from its point of view, but from its human touch and interesting action and plot.”
—W. E. B. Du Bois
“An engrossing novel of women’s lives and experiences… . Jessie Redmon Fauset uses Angela’s development as the springboard to explore larger issues that have become regarded as central to Black women’s fiction: the experience of passing, the exploitation of women as sexual objects and thus a questioning of heterosexual relationships, the assertion of racial pride, and the primacy of female bonding.”
—Mary Katherine Wainwright, Belles Lettres
“A fascinating glimpse of a now-vanished Harlem culture.”
—Rosalind Warren, New Directions for Women
“A reminder of how entertaining good writing can be.”
—Ernest R. Mercer, East St. Louis Monitor
About The Author
Morgan Jerkins
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was a poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Though often overlooked, she was a central figure in shaping the Harlem Renaissance. Fauset served as the literary editor of the NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis, from 1919 to 1926 where she published the works of writers such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Nella Larsen. Fauset published four novels, including There is Confusion and The Chinaberry Tree.
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