Comedy, American style

Jessie Redmon Fauset

first published 1933 G.K. Hall, 1994 327 pages

African-American women writers, 1910-1940

Comedy: American Style (1933), Fauset's fourth and last published novel, is the tragic story of how color prejudice and racial self-hatred result in the destruction of a family. The work is filled with vivid characters: Olivia Cary, whose mania in passing for white poisons her relationships with those closest to her; her daughter, Teresa, compelled by her mother to make choices that ruin her life; Phebe Grant, a wom...

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Comedy edition · 2009 · Rutgers University Press · 9781282241770
Comedy : American Style edition · 2009 · Rutgers University Press · 9780813577869
Comedy, American Style edition · 2009 · Rutgers University Press · 316 pages · 9780813548326
Comedy, American style edition · 2009 · Rutgers University Press · 270 pages · 9780813546315
Comedy, American style edition · 1994 · G.K. Hall · 327 pages
Comedy, American style edition · 1969 · Negro Universities Press · 327 pages

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