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"Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen played prominent roles in the black literary heyday known as the Harlem Renaissance. Revived by feminists in the late 1970s and early 1980s, their novels raise important questions about gender and race. In this book Jacquelyn McLendon looks at Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun (1929) and Comedy: American Style (1933) and Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) and finds them revisionary and subversive. She goes beyond previous feminist criticism to focus on the authors' works rather than their lives and moves toward developing new theoretical ways of looking at black women's writing."--BOOK JACKET. "McLendon shows how the nineteenth-century stereotype of the tragic mulatto as invented by white writers became both a political tool and an artistic device in the capable hands of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen. Using black female protagonists who often passed as whites, Fauset and Larsen showed that blacks were despised not for their lack of education or money or manners, but simply because they were black."--BOOK JACKET. "Fauset and Larsen attempted to blur the lines of distinction between classes and to counter racist representations of blackness and

Author

Mclendon, Jacquelyn Y.

Publisher

University Press of Virginia; University of Virginia Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813915531

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction