Paule Marshall (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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In addition to her novels and the four novellas contained in Soul Clap Hands and Sing (1961), Paule Marshall has written a number of short stories, the most important of which are “Reena,” “To Da-Duh, in Memoriam,” and “Some Get Wasted.” In “To Da-Duh, in Memoriam,” a young girl growing up in Brooklyn discovers her Barbadian roots on her first trip to Barbados. Her struggle to integrate the two sides of her heritage is a theme that is developed more fully in Marshall’s first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones. In “Reena,” the...
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