The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Paule Burke
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A mythical island in the Caribbean
- Principal Characters: Saul Amron, Harriet Amron, Merle Kinbona, Allen Fuso, Vereson Walkes, Lyle Hutson, Leesy, Ferguson, Stinger, Delbert
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Regional fiction, Postcolonial literature
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, Caribbean, Blacks, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Biracial people, Creoles, Adultery, Anti-Semitism, Developing countries, Islands, Multiculturalism
- Locales: Caribbean, Islands
The Novel
Marshall’s novel is divided into four books: “Heirs and Descendants,” “Bournehills,” “Carnival,” and “Whitsun.” The first two books serve as exposition. In them, she delineates her characters. The second two books link the subsequent actions of those characters to major rituals on Bourne Island. In effect, Marshall demonstrates how her characters’ histories determine the events and outcome of the novel. By the end of the novel, she has illustrated her prefatory words, taken from the Tiv of West Africa: “Once a great wrong has been done, it never...
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