- Fiction, Passing (Identity), African American women, Racially mixed people
"The House Behind the Cedars tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers."--Jacket.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 218
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Houghton, Mifflin and company
- Editions
- 105
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781542030885
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