Paule Marshall A Writer’s Life | 13.19 MB
Title: Paule Marshall
Author: Mary Helen Washington
Category: Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Black, Women Authors, Biography & Memoir, Literary
Language: English | 305 Pages | ISBN: 0300253850
An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora
Growing up in World War II—era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marshall (1929—2019) was fiercely driven to become a writer, making art from the world she knew, the life she lived, and the world she imagined. Though her novels and stories are understood by scholars as the beginning of contemporary Black feminist literature—bridging Harlem Renaissance writers like Zora Neale Hurston to such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou—Marshall’s legacy is often overlooked. In this elegant literary biography, distinguished scholar of African American literature Mary Helen Washington draws on exclusive access to the writer’s papers, including her newly discovered unpublished memoir, and scores of interviews with family and friends to give us the first account of Marshall’s life as an artist and of the…
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