The house behind the cedars
By: Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited with an introduction ans notes by Judith Jackson Fossett.
Edition: Modern Library pbk. ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Racially mixed people -- Fiction; African American women -- Fiction; Passing (Identity) -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Racism -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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.