The House Behind the Cedars
$27.28
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 April 1993
Summary
An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt’s story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140186857 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140186859 |
| Author: | Charles W. Chesnutt, Donald B. Gibson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1993 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
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“A pioneering work about racial passing.” -Werner Sollors, Harvard University
“A pioneering work about racial passing.”
—Werner Sollors, Harvard University
About The Author
Charles W. Chesnutt
Judith Jackson Fossett is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Illuminated Darkness: Slavery and Its Shadows in Nineteenth-Century America and the editor of Race Consciousness: African-American Studies for the New Century.
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