The House Behind the Cedars

Charles Chesnutt was perhaps the most influential African-American fiction writer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The House Behind the Cedars, his dramatic masterpiece, was crafted during the tumultuous post-Civil War era in the South, when many in white society feared the evils of interracial relationships. Boldly, with vivid detail and memorable characters, this novel explores the practice of passing, as John and Rena Walden, two light-skinned African Americans, step over the color line to share in the American Dream.
Conceived by a novelist who himself had once considered passing, The House Behind the Cedars continues as one of the bravest, most compelling, and most important explorations of racism in American fiction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 08/31/2007
ISBN: 9780486461441
Pages: 199
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.41w x 0.41d