The fiction of Paule Marshall : [electronic resource] reconstructions of history, culture, and gender / Dorothy Hamer Denniston.
Material type:
- 0870498398 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780870498398 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 087049838X (alk. paper)
- 9780870498381 (alk. paper)
- 813/.54 20
- PS3563.A7223 Z64 1995
- 18.06
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-184) and index.
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.
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