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The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
novel by Thurman
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African American literature
- In African American literature: Novelists
Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry (1929) exposes color prejudice among African Americans and is among the first African American novels to broach the topic of homosexuality. The struggles and frustrations Larsen revealed in the Black female protagonists of her novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) likely…
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- In Wallace Henry Thurman
His first novel, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, also appeared that year. Like his unfinished play Black Cinderella, it dealt with color prejudice within the Black community. Thurman is perhaps best known for his novel Infants of the Spring (1932), a satire of what…
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