Comedy: American Style, Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destruction--the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's introduction places this classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in early twentieth-century women writers, novels about passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora studies.

Chronology
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Comedy: American Style
Selected Essays
Yarrow Revisited
Nostalgia
This Way to the Flea Market
Selected Poems
Oriflamme
TouchT
La Vie C'est la Vie
Explanatory Notes