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Comedy: American
Style
Price: $27.95
Author: Jessie
Redmon Fauset
Edited and with an
Introduction by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Subject: American
Studies, Literary
Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4632-2
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4631-5
Pages:
304 pages
Publication Date: October 2009
Description:
Comedy: American Style,
Jessie Redmon Fauset’s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale
of a family’s destruction—the story of a mother who denies her clan its
heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands
the test of time and continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and
still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred.
Several of today’s bestselling novelists echo subject matter first
visited in Fauset’s commanding work, which overflows with rich, vivid,
and complex characters who explore questions of color, passing, and
black identity.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson’s introduction places this literary classic in
both the new
modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those
interested in earlytwentieth-century women writers, novels about
passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora
studies. Selected essays and poems penned by Fauset are also included,
among them “Yarrow Revisited” and “Oriflamme,” which help highlight the
full canon of her extraordinary contribution to literature and provide
contextual background to the novel.
About the Author:
CHERENE SHERRARD-JOHNSON is an associate professor in the
English department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the
author of Portraits of the New Negro
Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (Rutgers
University Press).
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