Moira Ferguson is Professor of English at New York University in London. Her books include Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, also published by SUNY Press, and Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834.

"In sophisticated yet accessible discussions, Ferguson places Marshall's work in a variety of contexts that are at the center of diasporic and postcolonial studies. By producing this comprehensive examination of Marshall's fiction, she captures the way in which Marshall not only writes about diasporic experiences but, through the interconnected themes of her novels, is crafting a diasporic saga on the subject." — Sharon M. Harris, author of Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832–1919

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Wanting Brownstones; Why Brooklyn?3. Soul Clap Hands and Sing: Sadness, Resistance, Redemption4. A "Nation of Diabetics" meets Empire5. Water and Nomenclature: Praisesong for the Widow 6. Paule Marshall’s Daughter’s: Wars of Independence7. The Fisher King: New Beginnings and a CulminationNotesBibliographyIndex

Moira Ferguson is Professor of English at New York University in London. Her books include Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, also published by SUNY Press, and Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834.

"In sophisticated yet accessible discussions, Ferguson places Marshall's work in a variety of contexts that are at the center of diasporic and postcolonial studies. By producing this comprehensive examination of Marshall's fiction, she captures the way in which Marshall not only writes about diasporic experiences but, through the interconnected themes of her novels, is crafting a diasporic saga on the subject." — Sharon M. Harris, author of Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832–1919

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Wanting Brownstones; Why Brooklyn?3. Soul Clap Hands and Sing: Sadness, Resistance, Redemption4. A "Nation of Diabetics" meets Empire5. Water and Nomenclature: Praisesong for the Widow 6. Paule Marshall’s Daughter’s: Wars of Independence7. The Fisher King: New Beginnings and a CulminationNotesBibliographyIndex