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Denniston, Dorothy Hamer,, 1944- The fiction of Paule Marshall : reconstructions of history, culture, and gender / Dorothy Hamer Denniston. - 1st ed.. - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995.
xxii, 187 p. : port. ; 23 cm. Content notes : Introduction : anatomy of an aesthetic : the African cultural base -- 1. Challenging the American norm : the gendered sensibility in the Valley between -- 2. Beyond bildungsroman : constructions of gender and culture in Brown girl, brownstones -- 3. Cultural expansion and masculine subjectivity : Soul clap hands and sing -- 4. Maturation and multiplicity in consciousness : the short stories -- 5. Changing the present order : personal and political liberation in The chosen place, the timeless people -- 6. Recognition and recovery : diasporan connections in Praisesong for the widow -- 7. Transformation and re-creation of female identity in Daughters. 0870498398 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780870498398 (pbk. : alk. paper) 087049838X (alk. paper) 9780870498381 (alk. paper) * Marshall, Paule,, 1929- - Criticism and interpretation. Marshall, Paule * Women and literature - History - 20th century. - United States African Americans in literature. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Negers. Letterkunde. Roman * Caribbean Area - In literature. Africa - In literature.