There Is Confusion
Автор:
Jessie Redmon FausetЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-11-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
84
Description
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 Marshall, an ambitious but snobby dancer; Phillip Marshall, Joanna’s brother who studies at Harvard; Maggie Ellersley, a hairdresser who aspires to climb the social ladder; and Peter Bye, a race-conscious medical student. Through the course of the novel, a series of misunderstandings and intentional slights set former friends and lovers at odds with one another, all the while the forces of racial prejudice prevent each of...
