TY - BOOK AU - Chesnutt,Charles W. TI - The House Behind the Cedars AV - PS PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Didactic fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - African Americans -- Fiction KW - Southern States -- Fiction KW - Passing (Identity) -- Fiction KW - African American women -- Fiction KW - Racism -- Fiction KW - Racially mixed people -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_(book); Release date is 1996-03-01; Produced by Charles Keller. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The House Behind the Cedars" by Charles W. Chesnutt is a novel published in 1900. Set in the post-Civil War South, it follows Rena Walden, a young woman of mixed ancestry who leaves home to live as white alongside her brother. When she falls in love with a white aristocrat, the secret of her heritage threatens to destroy everything. The novel explores interracial relations and the complexities of racial identity in America's Reconstruction era. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/472 ER -