Comedy, American style
by Jessie Redmon Fauset and Cherene Sherrard-johnson
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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.
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Comedy, American style
1969, Negro Universities Press, ABC-CLIO, LLC
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