{"id":25685,"date":"2012-09-30T22:08:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25685"},"modified":"2016-11-13T23:52:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T23:52:48","slug":"comedy-american-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25685","title":{"rendered":"Comedy: American Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/comedy-american-style\/9780813546322\" target=\"_blank\">Comedy: American Style<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rutgerspress.rutgers.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Rutgers University Press<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2009 (Originally Published in 1933)<br \/>\n304 pages<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4632-2<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4631-5<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessie_Redmon_Fauset\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie Redmon Fauset<\/a><\/strong> (1882-1961)<\/p>\n<p>Edited and with an Introduction by:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/people-faculty-sherrard-johnson.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cherene Sherrard-Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin, Madison<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/comedy-american-style\/9780813546322\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c185516216ae1d817e0c-1b689afc59e41ec94df323580a09674b.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/rutgers_648H\/9780813546322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Comedy: American Style<\/em>, Jessie Redmon Fauset\u2019s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family\u2019s destruction\u2014the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred. Several of today\u2019s bestselling novelists echo subject matter first visited in Fauset\u2019s commanding work, which overflows with rich, vivid, and complex characters who explore questions of color, passing, and black identity.<\/p>\n<p>Cherene Sherrard-Johnson\u2019s introduction places this literary classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in earlytwentieth-century women writers, novels about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a>, the black\/white divide, and diaspora studies. Selected essays and poems penned by Fauset are also included, among them \u201cYarrow Revisited\u201d and \u201cOriflamme,\u201d which help highlight the full canon of her extraordinary contribution to literature and provide contextual background to the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy: American Style Rutgers University Press October 2009 (Originally Published in 1933) 304 pages Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4632-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4631-5 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) Edited and with an Introduction by: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset\u2019s fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462],"tags":[54,92,3687,296],"class_list":["post-25685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","tag-cherene-sherrard-johnson","tag-jessie-fauset","tag-jessie-redmon-fauset","tag-rutgers-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49917,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions\/49917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}