The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen

by Jacquelyn Y. McLendon

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813915538
• ISBN13: 9780813915531
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"