The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Paule Marshall
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Unspecified; probably the 1960’s
- Setting: A mythical island in the Caribbean
- 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
Characters Discussed
Saul Amron, a veteran anthropologist and expert field worker in Third World countries. He leads a research group of Bournehills, on a Caribbean island. Sensitive, caring, and willing to listen, he acquires an understanding of the island people. Recruited from a teaching position at Stanford University, he reluctantly agrees to return to fieldwork; his first wife, a Holocaust survivor, died of a miscarriage in Honduras on his last field trip. In many ways, the Bournehills trip is an attempt to atone for his perceived failures, but he meets with limited...
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