TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fauset,Jessie Redmon
TI  - Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral 
T2  - Library of America E-Book Classics
SN  - 9781598535754
AV  - PS3511.A864 
U1  - 813 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Library of America
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Electronic books
N2  - Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun (1928) is a moving, delicately observed coming-of-age novel--one that brilliantly exemplifies the cultural, social, and creative ferment of the Harlem Renaissance. Its heroine, the young, talented, light-skinned Angela Murray, hopes for more from life than her black Philadelphia neighborhood and her middle-class upbringing seem to offer. Seeking romantic and creative fulfilment, and refusing to accept racist and sexist obstacles to her ambition, she makes a radical choice: to pass as white, and study art in New York City. Against the vivid, cosmopolitan backdrop of Harlem and Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, her subsequent journey through seduction, betrayal, protest, and solidarity is ultimately a journey toward self-understanding. Along the way, Fauset includes fictionalized portraits of leading Harlem Renaissance figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois (for whom she edited The Crisis) and the sculptor Augusta Savage, recently denied a chance to study in Paris because of her skin color. Revising conventional narratives of the "tragic mulatta" and skillfully blending realism and romance, her novel raises questions about art, race, gender, inspiration, and authenticity that will continue to resonate for readers today
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