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Toward Wholeness in Paule Marshall's Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Joyce Owens Pettis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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An examination of Marshall's work and its place in the tradition of African-American women's fiction and of black American and Caribbean literature and culture.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Paule Marshall
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-06 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling."
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Geneva Cobb Moore
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-31 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

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An in-depth examination of Black women's experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, histor
Worrying the Line
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Cheryl A. Wall
Categories: Literary Criticism
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In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarif
By the Breath of Their Mouths
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Mary Jo Bona
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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In By the Breath of Their Mouths, Mary Jo Bona examines the oral uses of language and the liberating power of speech in Italian American writing, as well as its