Plum Bun : a Novel Without a Moral - Softcover

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1290035148 ISBN 13: 9781290035149

Publisher: HardPress Publishing, 1923

Synopsis

Publisher

This Title is part of the "HardPress Classics Series". In this series we are bringing a treasure throve of old books back into print using our own state-of-the-art techniques. Since we are working with old material - occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these reproductions. We have managed to fix the vast majority of issues though, and we believe these books deserve to be persevered for future generations to enjoy.

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About the Author

Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 - April 30, 1961) was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history.[1] Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time[2] Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism. From 1919 to 1926, Fauset's position as literary editor of The Crisis, a NAACP magazine, allowed her to contribute to the Harlem Renaissance by promoting literary work that related to the social movements of this era. Through her work as a literary editor and reviewer, she discouraged black writers from lessening the racial qualities of the characters in their work, and encouraged them to write honestly and openly about the African-American race.[1] She wanted a realistic and positive representation of the African-American community in literature that had never before been as prominently displayed. Before and after working on The Crisis, she worked for decades as a French teacher in public schools in Washington, DC, and New York City. She published four novels during the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the lives of the black middle class. She also was the editor and co-author of the African-American children's magazine The Brownies' Book.[3] She is known for discovering and mentoring other African-American writers, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay.

Review

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

About this edition

• Publisher: HardPress Publishing
• Publication date: 1923
• ISBN 10: 1290035148
• ISBN 13: 9781290035149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392