Paule Marshall (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Paule Marshall is best known for her 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, which tells the story of Barbadian immigrants striving to surmount poverty and racism in their new home, as seen through the eyes of the young heroine, Selina Boyce, daughter of a hardworking, ambitious mother and an easygoing, romantic father. Ten years later, The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969) was published, followed by Praisesong for the Widow (1983), Daughters (1991), and The Fisher-King, (2000). Marshall has also written a number of...
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