{"id":41697,"date":"2015-07-10T02:32:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T02:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41697"},"modified":"2023-03-19T02:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T02:35:46","slug":"oreo-fiction-by-fran-ross-with-a-contribution-by-danzy-senna-and-harryette-mullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41697","title":{"rendered":"Oreo: Fiction by Fran Ross with a contribution by Danzy Senna and Harryette Mullen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/book\/oreo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oreo: Fiction by Fran Ross with a contribution by Danzy Senna and Harryette Mullen<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Directions Publishing<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-07 (originally published in 1974)<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780811223225<br \/>\nEbook ISBN: 9780811223232<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran_Ross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fran Ross<\/a><\/strong> (1935\u20131985)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndbooks.com\/book\/oreo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/W\/IMAGERENDERING_521856-T2\/images\/I\/41Jx-gOuFnL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia<\/a> searching for her Jewish father in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oreo<\/em> is raised by her maternal grandparents in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia<\/a>. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theseus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theseus<\/a> with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. <em>Oreo<\/em>, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manhattan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manhattan<\/a>, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3601,8,15,820,20],"tags":[1340,5235,5237,20398],"class_list":["post-41697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-religion","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-fran-ross","tag-harryette-mullen","tag-new-directions-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41697","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=41697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64220,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41697\/revisions\/64220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}