{"id":57805,"date":"2019-03-25T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57805"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:36:51","slug":"the-chinaberry-tree-a-novel-of-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57805","title":{"rendered":"The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Dover Publications<\/a>
\n2013-11-21 (Originally published in 1931)
\n352 pages
\n5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
\nISBN: 978-0486493220<\/p>\n

Jessie Redmon Fauset<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey<\/a> town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her “bad blood,” inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud and independent, she longs for the respectability of a conventional marriage. Laurentine’s vivacious and self-confident cousin, Melissa, also aspires to “marry up.” But a family secret shadows Melissa’s dreams and ambitions as she approaches an explosive revelation.<\/p>\n

African-American editor, poet, essayist, and novelist Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882\u20131961) was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance<\/a>. An editor of the NAACP<\/a> magazine The Crisis<\/em><\/a>, she was also an editor and co-author of the African-American children’s magazine, The Brownies’ Book<\/em><\/a>. Her third novel, The Chinaberry Tree<\/em>, draws upon elements of Greek tragedy<\/a> in its powerful depiction of interracial love and marriage. The tale also offers a modern perspective on the struggle of its African-American heroines toward self-knowledge.<\/p>\n

Reprinted from the Frederick A. Stokes Company<\/a>, New York, 1931 edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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