The House Behind the Cedars
Author(s): Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Published 1900 Onward
Narrators: James K. White
Number of Chapters: 33
Length: 07 hours and 29 minutes
Language: English
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of that time, Chesnutt lent a compassionate voice to a group that America did not want to hear. More broadly, however, Chesnutt illustrated, in this character play, the vast and perhaps insurmountable debt this country continues to pay for the sins of slavery. (Summary by James K. White)
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The audiobook The House Behind the Cedars falls under the genres of Literary Fiction, Published 1900 Onward. It is written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt.