Where Confusion Is: Transnationalism in the Fiction of Jessie Redmon Fauset

The project of recuperating marginalized women writers often disturbs sacrosanct geographic borders as well as gendered ones, and the case of Jessie Fauset is no exception.3 Accordingly, I want to bring Fauset's interest in Latin America to bear upon her notion of global citizenship, for Latin...

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Published inAfrican American review Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 131 - 144
Main Author Popp, Valerie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Saint Louis Saint Louis University 01.04.2009
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
African American culture
African American literature
African American studies
African Americans
American literature
Citizenship
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
Fiction
Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)
Larsen, Nella
Latin American literature
Literary criticism
Narratives
Nonfiction
Novels
Post World War I period
Reading
Slavery
Writers
Latin America
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Summary:The project of recuperating marginalized women writers often disturbs sacrosanct geographic borders as well as gendered ones, and the case of Jessie Fauset is no exception.3 Accordingly, I want to bring Fauset's interest in Latin America to bear upon her notion of global citizenship, for Latin America is a small but unusually persistent presence in both her fiction and nonfiction. [...] it is an imaginative play zone, a place that she positions against more familiar (and often overdetermined) sites of potential escape from the American South: namely Europe, Africa, and the urban North.
ISSN:1062-4783
1945-6182
1945-6182
DOI:10.1353/afa.0.0011