Stranger and Alone: The Story of a Man Who Betrayed His Own PeoplePosted in Books, Media Archive, Novels, Passing, United States on 2022-04-06 01:35Z by Steven |
Stranger and Alone: The Story of a Man Who Betrayed His Own People
Harcourt, Brace and Company
1951
308 pages
J. Saunders Redding (1906–1988)
Stranger and Alone dramatizes the psychological and moral costs of denying one’s racial identity and allowing one’s “white face” to predominate. Striving for individual success through rejection of one’s people, the novel implies, amounts to a betrayal of oneself, as well as a futile striving against history, “the time on the clock of the world.