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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Human Necklace: The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's Fiction

A Human Necklace: The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's Fiction

Ferguson, Moira

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1438444184
ISBN13: 9781438444185
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2014
Pages: 183
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Argues that Paule Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

From Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) to The Fisher King (2000), Paule Marshall's novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as well as emotional and geographical paths toward their ancestors. In this, the first critical study to address all of Marshall's fiction, Moira Ferguson argues that Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents. In creating a space for her characters' interrupted lives and those of their elders and ancestors, Ferguson argues, Marshall trains a spotlight on slavery's wake and engages her fiction in the service of healing deep global wounds.

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