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Marylin: A Novel of Passing

Marylin: A Novel of Passing

Rundt, Arthur
Höyng, Peter
Höyng, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 231

Literary CriticismBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1640141480
ISBN13: 9781640141483
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Sep 20 2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Offers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow, with relevance to today's Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements.

Marylin, a novel by the Austrian writer Arthur Rundt about a mixed-race woman passing as white, moves from Chicago to New York City and concludes tragically on a Caribbean island. First published in 1928 and now translated into English, it offers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow. Rundt's short but powerful novel touches several vital issues in society today, engaging each in a way that prompts further examination and cross-fertilization. First, it sheds historical light on what has become painfully obvious in the Black Lives Matter era (if it wasn't before): the continued injustice experienced by Blacks in America as an effect of structural racism. Second, it confronts issues of migration and hybrid identities. Third, it has relevance for Women's Studies through the title character's interaction with the patriarchy. Through these connections, it responds to a growing current in German Studies concerned with diversity and inclusion and integrating the discipline into the broader humanities. An introduction and an afterword, both of them extensive and scholarly, contextualize the novel in its time and as it relates to ours.

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