Praisesong For The Widow
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Praisesong For The Widow
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Author : Paule Marshall
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1984-04-16
Praisesong For The Widow written by Paule Marshall and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-04-16 with Fiction categories.
From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review
Praisesong For The Widow
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Author : Paule Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 1984
Praisesong For The Widow written by Paule Marshall and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with African American women categories.
"Avey Johnson-a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls-has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood."--Back cover.
Brown Girl Brownstones
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Author : Paule Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Brown Girl Brownstones written by Paule Marshall and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.
Triangular Road
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Author : Paule Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-03-03
Triangular Road written by Paule Marshall and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall's life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the world of European letters during a whirlwind tour of the continent funded by the State Department. In the course of her journeys to Europe, Barbados, and eventually Africa, Marshall comes to comprehend the historical enormity of the African diaspora, an understanding that fortifies her sense of purpose as a writer. In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Paule Marshall offers an indelible portrait of a young black woman coming of age as a novelist in a literary world dominated by white men.
Tragic Magic
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Author : Wesley Brown
language : en
Publisher: Of the Diaspora, 1
Release Date : 2021-03
Tragic Magic written by Wesley Brown and has been published by Of the Diaspora, 1 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with Fiction categories.
Foreword by Ismail Muhammad Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around Ellington's first day on the outside. Although hungry for freedom and desperate for female companionship, Ellington is haunted by a past that drives him to make sense of those choices leading up to this day. Through a filmic series of flashbacks, the novel revisits Ellington's prison experiences, where he is forced to play the unwilling patsy to the predatory Chilly and the callow pupil of the not-so-predatory Hardknocks; then dips further back to Ellington's college days, where again he is led astray by the hypnotic militarism of the Black Pantheresque Theo, whose antiwar politics incite the impressionable narrator to oppose his parents and to choose imprisonment over conscription; and finally back to his earliest high school days, where we meet in Otis, the presumed archetype of Ellington's "tragic magic" relationships with magnetic but dangerous avatars of black masculinity in crisis. But the effect of the novel cannot be conveyed through plot recapitulation alone, for its style is perhaps even more provoking than its subject. Originally published in 1978, and edited by Toni Morrison during her time at Random House, this Of the Diaspora edition of Tragic Magic features a new introduction by author Wesley Brown. Tragic Magic is a tremendous affirmation. .One hell of a writer. - James Baldwin . . .wonderfully wry. - Donald Barthelme About Of the Diaspora: McSweeney's Of the Diaspora is a series of previously published works in Black literature whose themes, settings, characterizations, and conflicts evoke an experience, language, imagery and power born of the Middle Passage and the particular aesthetic which connects African-derived peoples to a shared artistic and ancestral past. Wesley Brown's Tragic Magic, the first novel in the series, was originally published in 1978 and championed by Toni Morrison during her tenure as an editor at Random House. This Of the Diaspora edition features a new introduction written by Brown for the series. Tragic Magic will be followed by Paule Marshall's novel of a Harlem widow claiming new life. Praisesong for the Widow was originally published in 1983 and was a recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. The series is edited by writer Erica Vital-Lazare, a professor of creative writing and Marginalized Voices in literature at the College of Southern Nevada. Published in collectible hardcover editions with original cover art by Sunra Thompson, the first three works hail from Black American voices defined by what Amiri Baraka described as strong feeling getting into new blues, from the old ones. Of the Diaspora-North America will be followed by series from the diasporic communities of Europe, the Caribbean and Brazil.
Masters Of The Dew
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Author : Jacques Roumain
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1978
Masters Of The Dew written by Jacques Roumain and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Africa categories.
This outstanding Haitian novel tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought.
Soul Clap Hands And Sing
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Author : Paule Marshall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Soul Clap Hands And Sing written by Paule Marshall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
In each vignette, an aged man who has sacrificed human companionship to pursue fame, security, material possessions, or prestige comes face to face with his hollow existence and imminent death. A dramatic confrontation precipitated by female characters offers each a chance to inject greater meaning into his life.
Worrying The Line
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Author : Cheryl A. Wall
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2005
Worrying The Line written by Cheryl A. Wall and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarify, or subvert a moment in a song. Cheryl A. Wall applies this term to fiction and nonfiction wr
Daughters
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Author : Paule Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Release Date : 1991
Daughters written by Paule Marshall and has been published by Atheneum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with African American women categories.
Paule Marshall's acclaimed, ground-breaking novel Brown Girl, Brownstones establsihed her as a writer of enormous ability with a talent for bringing emotional truths to life. Her long-awaited new novel, Daughters, big and bittersweet, captures the jangle of the city and the musical lilt of the Carribean as it cuts back and forth from New York to the Islands, from present to past, and back again. At its center is Ursa Beatrice MacKenzie, a well-educated, good-hearted young black woman who is struggling to make a career and life for herself in New York. But swirling around her are several crises, including an abortion, a decision to break up with her boyfriend, the start of a new job, and, finally, the need to come to terms with her family back home -- her father, a crusading politician known as the PM, and her mother, Estelle, a former teacher from Hartford. Paule Marshall evokes every intimate detail and passionate feeling of this extraordinary family, creating a vivid, many-layered portrait of colorful, complex women and men trying to find themselves -- and one another -- in an ever-changing world.
Reena And Other Stories
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Author : Paule Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 1983
Reena And Other Stories written by Paule Marshall and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Fiction categories.
   This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the New York Times Book Review's series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographical headnotes to each story and "Merle," a novella excerpted from Marshall's 1969 novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People , and extensively reshaped and rewritten for this collection. It stands as an independent story about one of the most memorable women in contemporary fiction.