Denniston, Dorothy Hamer, 1944- The fiction of Paule Marshall : : reconstructions of history, culture, and gender / [electronic resource] / Dorothy Hamer Denniston.. — 1st ed.. — Knoxville : : University of Tennessee Press,, c1995.. — xxii, 187 p. : : port. ; 23 cm.

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.



ISBN: 0870498398 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780870498398 (pbk. : alk. paper) 087049838X (alk. paper) 9780870498381 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 94018767

Nat. Bib. No.: B9622146

Subjects--Personal Names:
Marshall, Paule, 1929- --Criticism and interpretation.
Marshall, Paule

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Negers.
Letterkunde.
Roman

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Caribbean Area--In literature.
Africa--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PS3563.A7223 / Z64 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54