Ferguson A Human Necklace

The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's Fiction
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4420-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferguson, Moira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Wanting Brownstones; Why Brooklyn?

3. Soul Clap Hands and Sing: Sadness, Resistance, Redemption

4. A “Nation of Diabetics” meets Empire

5. Water and Nomenclature: Praisesong for the Widow

6. Paule Marshall’s Daughter’s: Wars of Independence

7. The Fisher King: New Beginnings and a Culmination

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Moira Ferguson is Professor of English at New York University in London. Her books include Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, also published by SUNY Press, and Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834.