Soul Clap Hands and Sing
Author: Paule Marshall
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 185
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Author: Paule Marshall
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 185
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 177
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Natalie L. M. Petesch
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780896081192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNatalie Petesch has written sixteen stories of extraordinarily broad social and political significance.
Author: Natalie Petesch
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Published: 1981-12-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780896081208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paule Marshall
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn each vignette, an aged man who has sacrificed human companionship to pursue fame, security, material possessions, or prestige comes face to face with his hollow existence and imminent death. A dramatic confrontation precipitated by female characters offers each a chance to inject greater meaning into his life.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 900449071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community. Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography’” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.
Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001-02-15
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0198031750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0486118606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.
Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1984-04-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0452267110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review
Author: Dorothy Moseley Sutton
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 412
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