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Modern Black American Fiction Writers ("Paule Marshall b. 1929" begins on p. 93) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 167 pgs.

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Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers (Chap. 11 "The Circle of Meaning: Paule Marshall, Modernism, and the Masks of History") » Read Now
by Femi Ojo-Ade. 196 pgs.

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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through...
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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through provocative readings of prominent African-American writers, the contributors provide insights into contemporary African-American issues. This collection offers a rare opportunity to view African opinions on what it means to be African American.
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The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving out a Niche (Chap. 9 "Crossroads Are Our Roads: Paule Marshall's Portrayal of Immigrant Identity Themes") » Read Now
by Katherine B. Payant, Toby Rose. 198 pgs.

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Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the...
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Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the literature. This book examines the representation of the immigrant experience in North American literature. Most of the chapters discuss the portrayal of particular ethnic groups by specific authors during a century of American and Canadian history. The introductory and concluding essays provide historical, cultural, and literary contexts for a comparative approach to the experiences of different ethnic groups.
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Paule Marshall (1929-)" begins on p. 295) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 530 pgs.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically...
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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically arranged entries begins with a biographical sketch of the author, offers a judicious critical assessment of the author's major works, provides a representative sample of the critical responses the author's books have elicited, and concludes with a selected bibliography that lists the author's publications as well as useful secondary material. Included are entries for major figures, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, but many noteworthy young writers also receive the attention they deserve. Forty-one of the 79 writers discussed are women, and roughly a dozen of the novelists have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Intended for students and advanced scholars alike, the volume is sophisticated yet accessible to a wide audience.
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Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women (Includes discussion of Paule Marshall in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Simone A. James Alexander. 215 pgs.

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Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this fascinating study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France...
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Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this fascinating study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy. Although mothering is usually socialized as a welcoming, nurturing notion, Alexander argues that alongside this nurturing notion there exists much conflict. Specifically, she argues that the mother-daughter relationship, plagued with ambivalence, is often further conflicted by colonialism or colonial intervention from the "other", the colonial mothercountry.
Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women offers an overview of Caribbean women's writings from the 1990s, focusing on the personal relationships these three authors have had with their mothers and/or motherlands to highlight links, despite social, cultural, geographical, and political differences, among Afro-Caribbean women and their writings. Alexander traces acts of resistance, which facilitate the (re)writing/righting of the literary canon and the conception of a "newly created genre" and a "womanist" tradition through fictional narratives with autobiographical components.
Exploring the complex and ambiguous mother-daughter relationship, she examines the connection between the mother and the mother's land. In addition, Alexander addresses the ways in which the absence of a mother can send an individual on a desperate quest for selfhood and a home space. Thisquest forces and forges the creation of an imagined homeland and the re-validation of "old ways and cultures" preserved by the mother. Creating such an imagined homeland enables the individual to acquire "wholeness", which p
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Mothering the Mind: Twelve Studies of Writers and Their Silent Partners ("I Sign My Mother's Name Alice Walker, Dorothy West, Paule Marshall" begins on p. 142) » Read Now
by Martine Watson Brownley, Ruth Perry. 261 pgs.

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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (Chap. 12 "'The Persistence of Tradition': The Retelling of Sea Islands Culture in Works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall") » Read Now
by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen. 320 pgs.

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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad...
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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the time of the Middle Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myth and arts, these contributions reconceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American history and fiction.
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Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature (Chap. 2 "Voyages beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall") » Read Now
by Janice Lee Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp. 268 pgs.

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Edited collection of essays examining the fiction of contemporary Africana women including Ama Ata Aidoo, Shirley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shange, Flora Nwapa, Maryse Conde, Elizabeth Nunez Harrell, Jamaica Kinkaid and others.
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Paule Marshall's 'Brown Girl, Brownstones': Reconciling Ethnicity and Individualism, in African American Review » Read Now
by Martin Japtok. 11 pgs.

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"Oral Tutelage" and the Figure of Literacy: Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, in MELUS » Read Now
by Biman Basu. 16 pgs.

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The Pull to Memory and the Language of Place in Paule Marshall's 'The Chosen Place, the Timeless People' and 'Praisesong for the Widow,' in African American Review » Read Now
by Jane Olmsted. 19 pgs.

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"Yesterday Comes like Today": Communitas in Paule Marshall's 'The Chosen Place, the Timeless People,' in MELUS » Read Now
by Gary Storhoff. 16 pgs.

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Memory and Identity for Black, White and Jew in Paule Marshall's 'The Chosen Place, the Timeless People,' in MELUS » Read Now
by Adam Meyer. 22 pgs.

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Embodying Cultural Memory in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, in African American Review » Read Now
by Susan Rogers. 17 pgs.

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Of Bears & Bearings: Paule Marshall's Diverse Daughters, in MELUS » Read Now
by Moira Ferguson. 19 pgs.

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Dancing out of Form, Dancing into Self: Genre and Metaphor in Marshall, Shange, and Walker, in MELUS » Read Now
by Barbara Frey Waxman. 16 pgs.

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