{"id":22606,"date":"2012-04-22T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22606"},"modified":"2013-02-27T02:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T02:12:39","slug":"the-wedding-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22606","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wedding: A Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anchor<\/a> and imprint of Random House
\n1995
\n256 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-385-47144-2<\/p>\n

Dorothy West<\/a> (1907-1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In her first novel in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance<\/a>, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class.\u00a0 Set on bucolic Martha’s Vineyard<\/a> in the 1950s, The Wedding<\/em> tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast’s black bourgeoisie.\u00a0 Within this inner circle of “blue-vein society,” we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from “a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions.” Instead, she has fallen in love with and is about to be married to Meade Wyler, a white jazz musician from New York. A shock wave breaks over the Oval as its longtime members grapple with the changing face of its community.<\/p>\n

With elegant, luminous prose, Dorothy West crowns her literary career by illustrating one family’s struggle to break the shackles of race and class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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