Jessie Redmon Fauset

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Plum Bun, Jessie Redmon Fauset’s second novel, explores the tensions between racial identity and individual ambition, especially as they relate to gender and social class. Published a year before Nella Larsen’s novella “Passing,” Plum Bun was one of...

There Is Confusion

There Is Confusion

Jessie Redmon Fauset’s debut novel There is Confusion follows an ensemble of middle-class African-Americans as they come of age in 1910s New York. The novel explores a series of on-again, off-again romantic entanglements between four characters Joanna...