Dorothy West
1) Le Mariage
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Véritable classique de la littérature noire américaine, Le Mariage est paru en 1996 chez Belfond. En digne héritière du mouvement Harlem Renaissance, Dorothy West livre une saga familiale qui nous plonge dans l'élite noire des années 50, confrontée encore et toujours à la question raciale.
" La couleur était un leurre. Pas l'amour. "
Sur la très chic île de Martha's Vineyard, c'est l'effervescence : Shelby Coles, héritière d'une...
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"The Living Is Easy, Dorothy West's first novel and one of only a handful of novels published by women during the Harlem Renaissance, tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, who is determined to integrate into Boston's black elite. Married to the "Black Banana King" Bart Judson, Cleo maneuvers her three sisters and their children-but not their husbands-into living with her, attempting to recreate her original family in...
3) The wedding
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In the 1950s, a girl from the Black bourgeoisie in Martha's Vineyard announces her engagement to a White jazz musician. The bride is the great-great-granddaughter of a slave owner on one side and the great-great-granddaughter of a slave on the other. She is forced to confront truths about herself and her family's hidden secrets just days before her wedding. The novel follows the impact this has on her family and the community around them.
