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- catalog abstract "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 woman of integrity who refuses to deny her race; and Oliver Cary, rejected by a mother unable to accept the color of his skin and her own heritage. A novel that received mixed reviews on its original publication, Comedy: American Style raises compelling and disturbing themes.".
- catalog contributor b8037337.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "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 woman of integrity who refuses to deny her race; and Oliver Cary, rejected by a mother unable to accept the color of his skin and her own heritage. A novel that received mixed reviews on its original publication, Comedy: American Style raises compelling and disturbing themes.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xxxv, 317 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0816116288".
- catalog isPartOf "African-American women writers, 1910-1940".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "African American families Fiction.".
- catalog subject "African American women Fiction.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Color Social aspects Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Families United States Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3511.A864 C66 1994".
- catalog title "Comedy, American style / Jessie Redmon Fauset ; introduction by Thadious M. Davis.".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "text".