In the following essay, Waniek explores the themes of alienation and duality as reflected in Paule Marshall's short fiction.
As a first-generation West Indian-American and the author of thre...
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Critical Essay by Lloyd W. Brown
Apart from the usual review notices in the usual periodicals, there has been no noteworthy discussion of Paule Marshall's major works…. This neglect is ...
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Critical Essay by William Bradley Hooper
Praisesong for the Widow, Marshall's third novel, is uncomplicated yet resonant. The main character, Avey Johnson, a late-middle-aged black woman, wido...
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Critical Essay by Darryl Pinckney
Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves. The precocio...
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Critical Essay by Vernon Hall, Jr.
["Soul Clap Hands and Sing"] is something of a renaissance in authentic feeling for real men, women and life. Named for its geographic setting—...
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Critical Essay by Robert Bone
Paule Marshall, who is something of a cuisinière, specializing in Barbadian dishes, has concocted a novel of West Indian life that will greatly enhance her reputa...
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Critical Essay by Richard Rhodes
Paule Marshall has written a monumental book. [The Chosen Place, the Timeless People] is by no means an unqualified success, but it has the virtues of its length of s...
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Critical Essay by Henrietta Buckmaster
Paule Marshall is, I think, one of the best novelists writing in the United States. She has form, style and immense mastery of words. She writes with all her se...
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Critical Essay by Janet Burroway
I would have made more space for Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People if the author herself had made less. This is a depth-study of a remote ...
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Critical Essay by Bell Gale Chevigny
A novel that harbors an intelligent revolutionary politics and a compassionate, penetrating humanism is an event in any time. If the time is now, if the revolutio...
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Critical Essay by Leela Kapai
Paule Marshall is the author of Brown Girl, Brownstones; Soul Clap Hands and Sing; The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; and a few short stories and articles. With a re...
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Three years of emergency summits, nuanced apologies and behind-the-scenes negotiating failed. Anglican leaders this week gave the U.S. Episcopal Church an ultimatum: Halt your march toward full acc...
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Critical Essay by Marilyn Nelson Waniek
AP Analysis: Episcopal choices
