Like One of the Family (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Childress
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early 1950’s
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Mildred Johnson, Marge, Mrs. M, Mrs. C, Mrs. L
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Communication, Friendship, Harlem, Honesty, Domestic work or workers, Listening
- Locales: New York, NY
The Novel
Although it is classified as a novel, Like One of the Family does not have either the movement of plot or the change in character usually associated with that genre. Instead, Alice Childress’ work is a series of monologues, each of which is independent, even though all involve the same speaker and the same listener. This format can be explained by the fact that these monologues originally appeared separately, some of them in the newspaper Freedom, where they were called “Conversations from Life,” and others in the Baltimore Afro-American,...
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