Human Necklace

The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's Fiction

AvMoira Ferguson

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:183
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438444185

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

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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.

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"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

Innehållsförteckning

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

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