A human necklace : the African diaspora and Paule Marshall's fiction /
Moira Ferguson.
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wanting brownstones : why Brooklyn? -- Soul clap hands and sing : sadness, resistance, redemption -- A "nation of diabetics" meets empire -- Water and nomenclature : Praisesong for the widow -- Paule Marshall's Daughters : wars of independence -- The fisher king : new beginnings and a culmination.
9781438444208 (e-book)
Marshall, Paule, 1929- --Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans in literature. African American women in literature. Blacks in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. African diaspora in literature. Postcolonialism in literature.