The House Behind the Cedars

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Charles W Chesnutt

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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Author Biography:

Judith Jackson Fossett, associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, 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.

Release date NZ

April 1st, 1993

Author

Charles W Chesnutt

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Donald B. Gibson

Pages

224

Dimensions

130x196x15

ISBN-13

9780140186857

Product ID

13938175

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