{"product_id":"imitation-of-life-paperback","title":"Imitation of Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFannie Hurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Itzkovitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, \u003ci\u003eImitation of Life\u003c\/i\u003e has played a vital role in ongoing conversations about race, femininity, and the American Dream. Bea Pullman, a white single mother, and her African American maid, Delilah Johnston, also a single mother, rear their daughters together and become business partners. Combining Bea's business savvy with Delilah's irresistible southern recipes, they build an Aunt Jemima-like waffle business and an international restaurant empire. Yet their public success brings them little happiness. Bea is torn between her responsibilities as a businesswoman and those of a mother; Delilah is devastated when her light-skinned daughter, Peola, moves away to pass as white. \u003ci\u003eImitation of Life\u003c\/i\u003e struck a chord in the 1930s, and it continues to resonate powerfully today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of numerous bestselling novels, a masterful short story writer, and an outspoken social activist, Fannie Hurst was a major celebrity in the first half of the twentieth century. Daniel Itzkovitz's introduction situates \u003ci\u003eImitation of Life\u003c\/i\u003e in its literary, biographical, and cultural contexts, addressing such topics as the debates over the novel and films, the role of Hurst's one-time secretary and great friend Zora Neale Hurston in the novel's development, and the response to the novel by Hurst's friend Langston Hughes, whose one-act satire, \"Limitations of Life\" (which reverses the races of Bea and Delilah), played to a raucous Harlem crowd in the late 1930s. This edition brings a classic of popular American literature back into print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of an influential American classic--one of the first books in twentieth-century popular literature to grapple with issues of gender and race--is reason enough to celebrate, but Daniel Itzkovitz's splendid and insightful introduction reclaims for Fannie Hurst a preeminent position as an essential American literary figure whose work matters today more than ever.--Michael Bronski, author of \"The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFannie Hurst (1889-1968) was a popular writer of many novels and short stories. Among her best-known works are \u003ci\u003eBack Street \u003c\/i\u003e(1930) and \u003ci\u003eLummox \u003c\/i\u003e(1923).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Itzkovitz is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. He is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eQueer Theory and the Jewish Question\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.04 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52522296410419,"sku":"9780822333241","price":38.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/a3JNRkc2L2VZdUg5cGJDUXNtenpadz09.webp?v=1760547205","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/imitation-of-life-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}