Daughters (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Paule Marshall
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: New York City and Triunion, a fictional island in the West Indies
- Principal Characters: Ursa Beatrice Mackenzie, Estelle Beatrice Harrison Mackenzie, Primus Mackenzie, Astral Delores Forde, Vincereta Daniels (Viney), Lowell Carruthers, Ursa Louise Wilkerson Mackenzie (Mis-Mack), Celestine Marie-Claire Bellegarde
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s
- Locales: New York, NY
Form and Content
Daughters is the story of a woman’s search for her identity. As her two given names suggest, Ursa Beatrice Mackenzie is the product of two very different cultures. She is named Ursa for her paternal grandmother, Ursa Louise, a Triunion shopkeeper, and Beatrice for her mother, Estelle Beatrice Harrison Mackenzie, a sorority girl from a Hartford, Connecticut, family of schoolteachers and social workers. At the beginning of the novel, despite her father’s pleas and her mother’s letters, Ursa has remained away from Triunion for four years. Yet neither...
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