Brown Girl, Brownstones

Throughout Brown Girl, Brownstones, Paule Marshall presents Selina's progression through the eyes of the accompanying characters. Within the text, we see Selina interact with and observe three of...

Much of the plot revolves around the purchase of the brownstone where the family lives. They are struggling to get the money for the purchase. Selina's father has some land that could be sold, and...

Brown Girl, Brownstones takes place against the backdrop of the phenomenon of White flight, when growing numbers of White families left their traditional neighborhoods to go and live in the...

A common literary device is the use of first-person narrative to tell the author’s story, involving some fictional character reflecting and observing on that character’s life and experiences....

In Paule Marshall’s novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, the central characters are at war with each other. The novel’s main protagonist, Selina, is caught between her mother, a somewhat cold and...

One of the critical elements in the social context of Brown Girl, Brownstones is quite deliberate. Paule Marshall recognized the vacuum of women's voices in literature. She understood that she...

Brown Girl, Brownstones takes place in Brooklyn, New York. The Boyce family has immigrated to the US from Barbados in pursuit of the American dream. We can see this most clearly in Deighton, the...

Book 3 of Paule Marshall’s coming-of-age story set in a lower-income neighborhood in Brooklyn and featuring a girl’s transition to womanhood under trying circumstances is titled “The War,” and does...

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Marshall is quite deliberate in switching between Barbadian and American lifestyles in the narrative offered in Brown Girl, Brownstones. Being able to switch from one lens to another represents...

I think Suggie sees Selina as an opportunity to help Selina discover who she is. Suggie knows how hard it is to be a black woman in a white, male-dominated society, and she sees how shy and...