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Original Title:	Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
ISBN:	0807009199 (ISBN13: 9780807009192)
Edition Language:	English

Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Paperback | Pages: 408 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 969 Users | 85 Reviews

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Title	:	Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
Author	:	Jessie Redmon Fauset
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 408 pages
Published	:	December 15th 1999 by Beacon Press (first published 1928)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. African American. Historical. Historical Fiction. Race. Feminism

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Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is 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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The moral of Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral is that passing privilege is only a privilege if you're willing to turn your back on friends, family, and heritage and live a lie. But it is seductive nevertheless. The American dreams of freedom and individuality are for white people only, and white men in particular, and Angela longs to escape the bonds of race and history and be her own person with her own merits. Her situation is absurdly Kafkaesque: she is white yet not white; she is accepted

Worth a read. I enjoyed Nella Larson's telling of the same story better in Passing and Quicksand.4 out of 5

IQ "I don't mind a man's not marrying me; but I can't forgive him if he thinks I'm not good enough to marry him. [...]It's wrong for men to have both money and power; they're bound to make some woman suffer" Paulette, 128Obviously this novel was going to discuss race and the emotional as well logistical complexities of a Black person passing for white but I was also pleased that it touched on male privilege and sexism. It also has very independent female characters who have *gasp* casual sex and

'Now be practical, [Virginia]; after all, I am both white and Negro and look white. Why shouldn't I declare for the one that brings me the greatest happiness, prosperity, and respect?'The primary concern of Jessie Redmon Fauset's 'Plum Bun' rests on this very question.This novel has an irresistible charmits character's are affable and its story lovable. In this 'novel without a moral' we follow Angela Murray as she comes of age in a systematically racist America as she lives on both sides of the

Finally finished this book!!!!

A young African-American woman moves to New York in the 1920s with two goals on her mind. First, she wants to become a celebrated artist. She is a self-described "nobody" but she is talented, ambitious and willing to work hard. Her second goal is to live the kind of life that is available to white people only. She looks white enough to "pass" for one so she does. She gets an apartment in the Village, enrolls in Art classes, alters her name to make is sound more exotic and promptly meets a very

This is a hidden gem of a novel from the Harlem Renaissance. Fauset addresses racial passing and gender roles as well as romantic relationships and the struggle for independence. I thoroughly enjoyed the prose and the fleshed-out characters, including Angelas development as a self-accepting colored woman. Although there were some sections which I found slow, for the most part, it was a book I couldnt put down and was an overall enjoyable read.