The House Behind the Cedars

Name: The House Behind the Cedars
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ISBN: 9780812966169

Charles Chesnutt, Judith Jackson Fossett

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Modern Library Inc
15 April 2004

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

Charles Chesnutt's classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as ""a pioneering work of racial passing.""

Edited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett.

A riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life, The House Behind the Cedars follows John and Rena Walden, mixed-race siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The siblings travel carefully between Black and white worlds, but their precarious routine is threatened when Rena falls in love with a white man and hides her true heritage to start a life with him.

This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African American writers. As Werner Sollors writes, ""William Dean Howells did not overstate his case when he compared Chesnutt's works with those by Turgenev, Maupassant, and James.""

By: Charles Chesnutt
Introduction by: Judith Jackson Fossett
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 219g
ISBN: 9780812966169
ISBN 10: 0812966163
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 April 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.