Brown Girl, Brownstones

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Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0486118606

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Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.

Toward Wholeness in Paule Marshall's Fiction

Toward Wholeness in Paule Marshall's Fiction PDF

Author: Joyce Owens Pettis

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780813916149

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An examination of Marshall's work and its place in the tradition of African-American women's fiction and of black American and Caribbean literature and culture. Explores the intersecting patterns of race, class, and gender oppressions that contribute to her characters' problems and their attempts to transcend this oppression. For readers in women's, Caribbean, and African-American literature. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Triangular Road

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Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1458765520

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InTriangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall’s life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the world of European letters during a whirlwind tour of the continent funded by the State Department. In the course of her journeys to Europe, Barbados, and eventually Africa, Marshall comes to comprehend the historical enormity of the African diaspora, an understanding that fortifies her sense of purpose as a writer.In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Paule Marshall offers an indelible portrait of a young black woman coming of age as a novelist in a literary world dominated by white men.

Reena and Other Stories

Reena and Other Stories PDF

Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780935312249

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   This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the New York Times Book Review's series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographical headnotes to each story and "Merle," a novella excerpted from Marshall's 1969 novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People , and extensively reshaped and rewritten for this collection. It stands as an independent story about one of the most memorable women in contemporary fiction.

Praisesong for the Widow

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Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 1984-04-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0452267110

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From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Daughters

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Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher: Atheneum Books

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Paule Marshall's acclaimed, ground-breaking novel Brown Girl, Brownstones establsihed her as a writer of enormous ability with a talent for bringing emotional truths to life. Her long-awaited new novel, Daughters, big and bittersweet, captures the jangle of the city and the musical lilt of the Carribean as it cuts back and forth from New York to the Islands, from present to past, and back again. At its center is Ursa Beatrice MacKenzie, a well-educated, good-hearted young black woman who is struggling to make a career and life for herself in New York. But swirling around her are several crises, including an abortion, a decision to break up with her boyfriend, the start of a new job, and, finally, the need to come to terms with her family back home -- her father, a crusading politician known as the PM, and her mother, Estelle, a former teacher from Hartford. Paule Marshall evokes every intimate detail and passionate feeling of this extraordinary family, creating a vivid, many-layered portrait of colorful, complex women and men trying to find themselves -- and one another -- in an ever-changing world.

The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

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Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1984-09-12

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0394726332

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The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve, between natives and foreigners, black and whites, haves and have-nots, keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power. “An important and moving book . . . Marshall is as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people, she makes better sense of both.”—Village Voice

Soul Clap Hands and Sing

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Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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In each vignette, an aged man who has sacrificed human companionship to pursue fame, security, material possessions, or prestige comes face to face with his hollow existence and imminent death. A dramatic confrontation precipitated by female characters offers each a chance to inject greater meaning into his life.

Paule Marshall

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Author: Paule Marshall

Publisher: Research Inst for the Study of Man

Published: 1992-12-01

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9780963374127

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