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Bezig met laden... Imitation of Life (1932)door Fannie Hurst
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A tearjerker about mothers who work hard to provide for their daughters. Bea Pullman's brief marriage leaves her with a baby and the need to earn a living. She takes over her dead husband's business and we follow her as it grows with the help of Delilah, the Black nanny she hires to care for her baby, Jessie. Delilah, who probably looks like Aunt Jemima, is also recently widowed and has a baby girl, Peola, whose skin is as light as her light-skinned father. Peola keeps trying to pass as white and SPOILER eventually tells her mother that they must never see each other again. Bea falls in love with a man eight years younger than she is, but he and Jessie love each other. Bea is left with her father, who had a severe stroke and is unable to communicate. So, while Bea is outwardly a successful business woman, her personal life is tragic. There have been two movie versions; they change a lot. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington that lends the film its transcendent emotional power. This first adaptation of Fannie Hurst's best-selling novel boldly confronts the complexities and contradictions of racial identity, economic exploitation, and the limits of the American dream. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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