Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
«Il punto è che le persone hanno bisogno di sentirsi superiori a qualcosa. Non c’è da meravigliarsi se persino il più nero dei neri cerca qualcuno più nero di lui con cui rifarsela.»
Emma Lou è una ragazza nera. Troppo nera. Vessata in famiglia e isolata a scuola, dalla provincia a New York, ogni sua ricerca di un posto nella società sembra andare a sbattere contro lo stesso vicolo cieco. Che sia questa la sua condanna? Testimonianza diretta degli anni ruggenti del jazz e del proibizionismo, il capolavoro di Wallace Thurman è un crudo romanzo di formazione che fa luce su un fenomeno tanto esteso quanto poco riconosciuto: quello della discriminazione all'interno della comunità afroamericana.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Showing 10 featured editions. View all 10 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
02 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
03
Blacker the Berry
November 2001, Rebound by Sagebrush
School & Library Binding
in English
0613377192 9780613377195
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
04
The blacker the berry--
1996, Scribner Paperback Fiction
in English
- 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
068481580X 9780684815800
|
eeee
|
05
The Blacker The Berry (Black Classics)
September 25, 1996, The X Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
1874509131 9781874509134
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
06 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
07
The blacker the berry ...: A novel of Negro life.
1970, Collier Books
in English
0020547501 9780020547501
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08 |
zzzz
|
09 |
zzzz
|
10 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
First Sentence
"Mai così acutamente, Emma Lou iniziò ad avvertire il nero intenso della sua carnagione come un problema, e la marcata differenza di colore rispetto alle persone intorno a lei come una specie di maledizione. Non che le desse fastidio essere nera – un sacco di gente aveva la pelle colorata, compresa la sua famiglia –, ma la infastidiva essere troppo nera."
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
Contributors
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Work Description
One of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry...was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. This pioneering novel found a way beyond the bondage of Blackness in American life to a new meaning in truth and beauty.
Emma Lou Brown's dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation -- not only to herself, but to her lighter-skinned family and friends and to the white community of Boise, Idaho, her home-town. As a young woman, Emma travels to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s. Wallace Thurman re-creates this legendary time and place in rich detail, describing Emma's visits to nightclubs and dance halls and house-rent parties, her sex life and her catastrophic love affairs, her dreams and her disillusions -- and the momentous decision she makes in order to survive.
A lost classic of Black American literature, The Blacker the Berry...is a compelling portrait of the destructive depth of racial bias in this country. A new introduction by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, author of The Sweeter the Juice, highlights the timelessness of the issues of race and skin color in America.
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created March 15, 2021
- 5 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
September 30, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
July 27, 2021 | Edited by ISBNbot2 | normalize ISBN |
March 15, 2021 | Edited by DomingoOttati | Edited without comment. |
March 15, 2021 | Edited by DomingoOttati | Added new cover |
March 15, 2021 | Created by DomingoOttati | Added new book. |