Daughters | Daughters

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Author: Paule Marshall
First Published: 1991
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1980’s
Setting: New York City and the West Indies island of Triunion
Principal Characters: Ursa Beatrice Mackenzie, Primus Mackenzie, Estelle Mackenzie, Vincereta “Viney” Daniels, Lowell Carruthers, Astral Forde, Celestine Marie-Claire Bellegarde
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: 1950’s
Locales: New York, NY

Daughters examines the personal and political growth associated with Africa’s diaspora in both the United States and the West Indies. Ursa Mackenzie is a nexus of two cultures who is trying to understand both. Part of the upwardly mobile black middle class, Ursa struggles with personal identity and relationships in a context of privilege while other black people are victimized not only by racism but by their own people’s participation in a corrupt and corrupting political system. Daughters juxtaposes the personal and the political to demonstrate how...

Daughters | Daughters

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