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Plum Bun : a Novel Without a Moral

Black Women Writers

by Fauset Jessie Redmon

Synopsis

Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors,Plum Bunis the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes is her only obstacle to opportunity. What she soon discovers is that being a woman has its own burdens that don't fade with the color of one's skin, and that love and marriage might not offer her salvation.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1992
ISBN-13 9780807009192
ISBN-10 0807009199
Class Copyright
Publisher Beacon Press
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 412
Shelf No. JW403
Ages 20-99