Name: Alien Land (en Inglés)
SKU: 24808310
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Author: Savoy, Willard ; Stepto, Robert Burns
ISBN: 9781555536572

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Willard Savoy

Otro

Robert Burns Stepto

Editorial

Northeastern University Press

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.2x14.2x2.4 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN

1555536573

ISBN13

9781555536572

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

Alien Land (en Inglés)

Willard Savoy (Autor) · Robert Burns Stepto (Otro) · Northeastern University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Alien Land is the passionate and haunting story of a light-skinned black man who can pass as white in mid-twentieth-century America. As a spiritually tormented child and young adult caught between two worlds in a segregated society, Kern Roberts puzzles over racism and agonizes over "why he's a nigger." As a teenager studying at the exclusive Evans Academy in Vermont, Kern "passes" until a classmate maliciously exposes him. Anguished and resentful, he throws himself into working for the Freedom League in Washington, D.C., the civil rights organization of which his father, a prominent black attorney, is national president. In 1934 Kern starts college in an "alien land," the Jim Crow South. Exposed to horrifying racially motivated crimes, prejudice, and contempt, Kern necessarily plays the submissive "nigger" until, terrorized, he renounces his race and his father, returning to Vermont to live as a white man with his white grandmother. Ultimately he comes to terms with his biracial identity, finds peace in his marriage to a white woman, and reconciles with his father. Robert Burns Stepto's keen introduction firmly situates Alien Land in the line of African American novels that treat the issue of identity through the motif of passing. Originally published in cloth in 1949 to national acclaim, the full text of this remarkable novel is finally available in paperback.