Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don't fade with the color of one's skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.
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An engrossing novel of women's lives and experiences. . . . Jessie Redmon Fauset uses Angela's development as the springboard to explore larger issues that have become regarded as central to black women's fiction: the experience of passing, the exploitation of women as sexual objects and thus a questioning of heterosexual relationships, the assertion of racial pride, and the primacy of female bonding. --Mary Katherine Wainwright, Belles Lettres
"A fascinating glimpse of a now-vanished Harlem culture." --Rosalind Warren, New Directions for Women
"A reminder of how entertaining good writing can be." --Ernest R. Mercer, East St. Louis Monitor
"A fascinating glimpse of a now-vanished Harlem culture." --Rosalind Warren, New Directions for Women
"A reminder of how entertaining good writing can be." --Ernest R. Mercer, East St. Louis Monitor
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Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) was literary editor of Crisis from 1919 to 1926. She is the author of four novels, including The Chinaberry Tree.
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Truly a Classic!,
By Tamara (Washington , DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (Paperback)
Ms. Fauset was one of the most underrated members of the Harlem Renaissance. Plum Bun is by far the strongest of her novels. I saw more in this story than simply a discussion of color and privilege, I was pleased by the complexity of the relationship between the two sisters in this novel. Ms. Fauset is one of my literary favorites, and a woman that I truly admire. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Amazing,
By "summerrain77" (New Haven, CT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (Paperback)
Fauset allows the reader to take an in-depth look at passing for white. Unlike the charcater in Danzy Sennas Caucasia, Fauset creates a main character who chooses to pass and lets the reader know every repercussion of that decision. Go out and get it!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Jessie Fauset is EXCELLENT!!!,
By "alfost" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (Paperback)
I was so impressed with how Ms Fauset wrote Plum Bun, that upon completing the book I have been actively purchasing all of her other books that are in print. Her writing style proves that a good book is timeless. I highly recommend Plum Bun and There Is Confusion, which was so good I could not put it down..literally. I strongly urge all to get this woman's books post haste!! You will have some very satisfying reading hours.
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Miss Powell, New York, Martha Burden, Matthew Henson, Opal Street, Van Meier, Jayne Street, Miss Mory, Hetty Daniels, Anthony Cross, Miss Tilden, Rachel Salting, Miss Murray, Seventh Avenue, Long Island, Mary Hastings, Sara Penton, Miss Lister, Henrietta Jones, Roger Fielding, Cooper Union, Esther Bayliss, Seymour Porter, Arthur Sawyer, Angèle Mory Browse Sample Pages:
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- Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual And Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson on 31 pages
- Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West by Sharon L. Jones on 29 pages
- The Mulatta and the Politics of Race by Teresa C. Zackodnik on 18 pages
- Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940 by Susan Goodman on 14 pages
- The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen by Jacquelyn Y. Mclendon on 14 pages
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