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A Place Without Twilight (Voices of the South)

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In a New Orleans where things, and people, are supposed to be black and white, Cille and her brothers--not-quite white and not-quite colored--are neither. Young Cille struggles for balance and identity in a world where race and class define people for life, and where her two brothers lose themselves beating against the bars of the cage of a divided culture. 392 pp.

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In the New Orleans of the '30s and '40s, things - and people - are supposed to be black and white. Cille and her light-skinned brothers are neither. They are "the color that looks not-quite white next to a white man, and not-quite colored next to a colored man. It was a non-color in a place where you had to be something". The daughter of a dreamy alcoholic father who introduces Cille to "Mr. Keats and Mr. Shelley" but who exits her life too soon, and a mother who teaches her children not the love of God but the fear of him, young Cille struggles for balance and identity in a world where race and class define people for life, and where her brothers destroy themselves beating against the bars of the cage of a divided culture.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780807122259
Author:
Feibleman, Peter
Publisher:
Louisiana State University Press
Location:
Baton Rouge :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Afro-americans
Subject:
New Orleans (La.)
Subject:
New orleans
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Domestic fiction
Subject:
New Orleans (La.) Fiction.
Subject:
Afro-American families -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Fiction.
Subject:
African American families
Copyright:
1997
Edition Number:
LSU Press ed.
Edition Description:
Lsu Press
Series:
Voices of the South
Series Volume:
no. 80
Publication Date:
November 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
392
Dimensions:
8.40x5.45x.82 in. 1.03 lbs.
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"Synopsis" by , In the New Orleans of the '30s and '40s, things - and people - are supposed to be black and white. Cille and her light-skinned brothers are neither. They are "the color that looks not-quite white next to a white man, and not-quite colored next to a colored man. It was a non-color in a place where you had to be something". The daughter of a dreamy alcoholic father who introduces Cille to "Mr. Keats and Mr. Shelley" but who exits her life too soon, and a mother who teaches her children not the love of God but the fear of him, young Cille struggles for balance and identity in a world where race and class define people for life, and where her brothers destroy themselves beating against the bars of the cage of a divided culture.
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