New York: Boni & Liveright, (1928).
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Hardcover. First edition. A bit of soiling at the crown, else near fine in a worn and chipped fair only dustwrapper with chips (the largest claiming the top half of the rear panel, and internally repaired tears). Fauset, one of the first female African-American graduates of Cornell, was a very influential critic and the most prolific novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. While her formal, proper writing derived from her old-style Philadelphia upbringing, she was a champion of radical black novelists. As editor of *The Crisis* she published and encouraged George Schuyler, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. This, the first of her four novels, followed Toomer's *Cane* as the second novel of the Harlem Renaissance. *There Is Confusion* was the first work of fiction to portray the educated black middle class as a legitimate and productive portion of a racially mixed society. We've never seen another copy in jacket.
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