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

By Moira Ferguson

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781438444208, 9781438444192
LCC
PS3563.A7223.Z67 20
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1210995 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
185\0
Time added
2023-08-13 12:16:25
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Description

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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