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

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Modern Black American Fiction Writers

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User's Guide

The Life of the Author Harold Bloom

Introduction

Maya Angelou B. 1928

William Attaway 1911-1986

James Baldwin 1924-1987

Ralph Ellison 1914-1994

Chester Himes 1909-1984

John Oliver Killens 1916-1987

Paule Marshall B. 1929

Willard Motley 1909-1965

Ann Petry B. 1912

John A. Williams B. 1925

Frank Yerby 1916-1991
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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")
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 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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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Africa and America: a Question of Continuities, Cleavage, and Dreams Deferred

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2: W.E.B. Du Bois: the Man and Vision of Africa for Africans

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3: Langston Hughes and Africa

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4: Richard Wright: a Dubious Legacy

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5: Claude Mckay: the Tragic Solitude of an Exiled Son of Africa

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6: Another African Artist's Wayward Thoughts on Eugene Redmond's Poetry

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7: Branches of the Same Tree: African and African-American Poetry

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8: Notions and Nuances: Africa in the Works of James Baldwin

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9: Reviewing Gloria Naylor: toward a Neo-African Critique

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10: Creative African Memory: Some Oral Sources of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

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11: The Circle of Meaning: Paule Marshall, Modernism, and the Masks of History

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12: Homesick and Eurocentric? Alice Walker's Africa

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13: I Is: Toni Morrison, the Past, and Africa

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Afterword: What's in a Name?

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About the Contribuiors
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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")
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 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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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stories of the Uprooted

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Works Cited

1: In(ter)dependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish Immigrant Women's Autobiography

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Works Cited

2: Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers

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3: Fighting the Trolls on the Dakota Plains: The Ecstasy and the Agony of Norwegian Immigrants' Lives in O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth

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4: Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating Between "Cultural Arrest" and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fictions

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5: Developing Negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

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6: Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant as Spy Who Comes in from the Cold

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7: Repositioning the Stars: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Asian American Immigration

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8: Borderland Themes in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek

9: Crossroads Are Our Roads: Paule Marshall's Portrayal of Immigrant Identity Themes

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10: Motherland Versus Daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's the Line of the Sun

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110: Basan and Hybridity: Necessary Cultural Strategies

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12: Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American

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12: Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American

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Selected Bibliography

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About the Contributors
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Paule Marshall (1929-)" begins on p. 295)
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 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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Preface

Introduction

Tina Mcelroy Ansa

Doris Jean Austin

James Baldwin

Toni Cade Bambara

Barry Beckham

Hal Bennett

David Henry Bradley, Jr

Gwendolyn Brooks

Cecil Morris Brown

Frank London Brown

Ed Bullins

Octavia E. Butler

Bebe Moore Campbell

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Alice Childress

Michelle Cliff

Cyrus Colter

Steven Corbin

Samuel Delany

William Demby

Melvin Dixon

Larry Duplechan

Ralph Waldo Ellison

Arthur R. Flowers

Leon Forrest

Albert French

Ernest J. Gaines

Marita Golden

Sam Greenlee

Bill Gunn

E. Lynn Harris

Chester B. Himes

Kristin Hunter

Blyden Jackson

Charles Johnson

Gayl Jones

June Jordan

William Melvin Kelley

Randall Kenan

John Oliver Killens

Jamaica Kincaid

Andrea Lee

Audrey Lee

Philip Lewis

Audre Lorde

Clarence Major

Paule Marshall

Sharon Bell Mathis

John A. Mccluskey, Jr

Reginald Mcknight

Terry Mcmillan

Louise Meriwether

Toni Morrison

Walter Mosley

Albert Murray

Walter Dean Myers

Gloria Naylor

Ann Petry

Carlene Hatcher Polite

Ishmael Reed

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Dori Sanders

Sapphire

Gil Scott-Heron

Ntozake Shange

Charlotte Watson Sherman

Ann Allen Shockley

April Sinclair

Ellease Southerland

Joyce Carol Thomas

Dawn Turner Trice

Alice Walker

Margaret Walker

Dorothy West

John Edgar Wideman

Sherley Anne Williams

Jacqueline Woodson

Sarah Elizabeth Wright

Frank Garvin Yerby

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Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women (Includes discussion of Paule Marshall in multiple chapters)
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, 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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Mother Imagery: In the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reclaiming Identities Afro-Caribbean Women Writers Writing the Self

1: Resisting Zombification (Re)Writing/Righting the Literary Canon

2: I Am Me, I Am You the Intricate Mother-Daughter Dyadic Relationship

3: Imagined Homelands Engendering a Mythic Return “home”

4: "An/Other Way of Knowing Things" Ancestral Line(Age), Revalidating Our Ancestral Inheritances

5: "Call[ing] Your Nation" a Journey Completed

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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)
by Martine Watson Brownley, Ruth Perry. 261 pgs.

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Mothering the Mind

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Introduction

"My Idea in Your Mind" John Locke and Damaris Cudworth Masham

Female Muses the Early Tradition

The Secrets of Swift and Stella

"Under the Dominion of Some Woman" the Friendship of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale

Lovers as Nurturers

The Domestic Economy of Art Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

On Exile and Fiction the Leweses and the Shelleys

Gertrice /Altrude Stein, Toklas, and the Paradox of the Happy Marriage

Mothers Real and Imagined

I Sign My Mother's Name Alice Walker, Dorothy West, Paule Marshall

The Magic Spinning Wheel Straw to Gold— Colette, Willy, and Sido

Virginia Woolf and Her Violin Mothering, Madness, and Music

Friends as Family and Family as Friends

Closer Than a Brother Swinburne and Watts-Dunton

Emerson and the Angel of Midnight the Legacy of Mary Moody Emerson

"A Spirit, Yet a Woman Too!" Dorothy and William Wordsworth

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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")
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 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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Contributors

Prologue

1: The Middle Passage between History and Fiction Introductory Remarks

Part I: Voyage through Death . . .

2: Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867

3: The Slave Ship Dance

4: The (De-)Construction of the "Other" in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

5: Landings

6: . . . . the Poetics of Abjection in Beloved

7: Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments

Part II: . . . to Life upon These Shores

8: Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment

9: The Color of Money

10: Judicial Nullification

11: Africa in South Carolina

References

12: The Persistence of Tradition

13: The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage

Part III: In Africa, There Are No Niggers

14: The Enigma of the Return

15: The Hues and Uses of Liberia

16: Voyage into the Heart of Africa

17: African Americans in Africa

18: Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic

19: Alice Walker, Activist

20: Passages to Identity

21: Return Passages Maryse Condé Brings Tituba Back to Barbados

22: Mediterranean Passage

Epilogue: Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife

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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")
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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Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 A Birthing of Self

1 Psychic Rage and Response The Enslaved and the Enslaver In Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose

2 Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation The Climacteric as Seen in Novels By Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall

3 A Woman's Art; a Woman's Craft The Self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo

4 Coming Home to Herself Autonomy and Self-Conversion In Flora Nwapa's One is Enough

Part 2 Relationships: Mothering, Marrying, Mistressing, and Women to Women Disengaging the Family Romance

5 When Difference is Not the Dilemma The Black Woman Couple In African American Women's Fiction

6 "Devouring Gods" And "Sacrificial Animals" The Male-Female Relationship In Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a Love Story

7 Snapshots of Childhood Life In Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction

8 Fire and Ice The Socioeconomics of Romantic Love In When Rocks Dance by Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell

Part 3 War on All Fronts Race, Class, Sex, Age, and Nationality

9 Agents of Pain and Redemption In Sapphire's Push

10 Romantic Love and the Individual In Novels by Mariama Bâ, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head

11 The Politics of Exile Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy

12 Sense Make Befoh Book" Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution In Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of Forgetting

Part 4 Invention and Convention Womanist Gazes on Literary and Critical Traditions

13 Meditations on Her/Story Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem And the Slave Narrative Tradition

14 Guyana's Historical Sociology and The Novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols

15 Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism

16 "A Girl Marries a Monkey" The Folktale as an Expression of Value And Change in Society

17 Revolutionary Brilliance The Afrofemcentric Aesthetic

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Paule Marshall's 'Brown Girl, Brownstones': Reconciling Ethnicity and Individualism, in African American Review
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
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
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
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
by Adam Meyer. 22 pgs.

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

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Of Bears & Bearings: Paule Marshall's Diverse Daughters, in MELUS
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
by Barbara Frey Waxman. 16 pgs.

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