Kingsblood Royal (eBook)

Historical Novel

Sinclair Lewis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
351 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-633811999-5 (EAN)

Infos

Neil Kingsblood is a white middle-class man who discovers, while researching his family background, that he is directly descended from an African adventurer on the American frontier. Through various machinations, Kingsblood loses his banking job and takes a lesser one. He begins to be treated differently by former acquaintances, despite the lack of visible black African ancestry. He is forced to choose between continuing what he has come to see as a hollow existence in the white community and taking on the oppressed minority status of the black community. After Kingsblood tells several white friends about his newfound ancestry, the news quickly spreads, and he finds that acquaintances change their behavior toward him. He engages in a quixotic struggle against the racism newly apparent but widespread in his community.

Autor

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novels Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and It Can't Happen Here. His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism in the interwar period. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2022
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Civil Rights Movement • Fahrenheit 451 • Hemingway • Huck Finn • Identity Crisis • Jack London • mid-20th century America • Racial Discrimination • racial heritage revelation • racial identity • racial passing • racial prejudice • racial tension • Social Justice • The Awakening • The Catcher in the Rye • The Grapes of Wrath • The Great Gatsby • The scarlet letter • To Kill a Mockingbird