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Toward Wholeness in Paule Marshall's Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Joyce Owens Pettis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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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.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Paule Marshall
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-06 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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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."
Telling Stories
Language: en
Pages: 493
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-15 - Publisher: BRILL

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The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concern
African American Lives
Language: en
Pages: 1054
Authors: Henry Louis Gates
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-29 - Publisher: OUP USA

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In the long-awaited successor to the "Dictionary of American Negro Biography," the authors illuminate history through the immediacy of individual experience, wi
Worrying the Line
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Cheryl A. Wall
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarif