{"product_id":"paul-marchand-f-m-c","title":"Paul Marchand F.M.C.","description":"Never before published, this novel written in the 1920s disputes prevailing attitudes on racial character and identity. \u003cp\u003eAfter living for many years in France, the wealthy and sophisticated Paul Marchand, a Free Man of Color, returns to his home in New Orleans.  He discovers through a will that he is white and is now head of a prosperous and influential family.  Since mixed-race marriages are illegal in Louisiana, he must renounce his mulatto wife and bastardize his children. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles W. Chesnutt wrote this novel at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance but set it in the past, a time and place favored by George Washington Cable.  Published now for the first time, \u003ci\u003ePaul Marchand, F. M. C.\u003c\/i\u003e examines the system of race and caste in nineteenth-century New Orleans.  Chesnutt reacts against the traditional stance that fiction by leading American writers of the previous generation had taken on the issue of miscegenation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChesnutt resolves Marchand’s dilemma with a surprising plo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52665657098607,"sku":"9781578067985","price":311.16,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/1578067987.jpg?v=1770907247","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/paul-marchand-f-m-c","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}