The Changelings
January 1993
Trade Paperback · 360 Pages
$14.95 U.S. · $18.00 CAN
ISBN 9780935312409
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Trade Paperback · 360 Pages
$14.95 U.S. · $18.00 CAN
ISBN 9780935312409
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Recommended for These Courses
- African American Studies: General
- History: General
- Language and Literature: Fiction
- Religion: History
- Religion: Judaism
- Sociology: African American Studies
- Sociology: Gender Studies
- Sociology: General
- Sociology: Race and Ethnic Minorities
- Women's and Gender Studies: General
Description
First published in 1955, The Changelings is a novel about a pair of stubborn adolescent girls who refuse to accept the racism and anti-Semitism of their respective communities. Their courage allows them to question and to cross over into the no-man's land of segregated urban neighborhoods claimed most recently by Jews, but now-in the early fifties-needed by African Americans. Anzia Yeziersky, in the New York Times, wrote that in Judith, the author has created a portrait of a new kind of teenage gang leader, so imaginatively realized that she transcends mere realism.