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Paule Marshall Quotes
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My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Paule Marshall Information
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Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
The Daughter Of the Mother Poets; Novelist Paule Marshall, Exploring The World of Black Immigrants
10/08/1991: 2,780 words, approx. 9 pages
On a rainy day in this city of Confederate monuments, Paule Marshall is sitting at a polished oak table in her apartment. There's a clear vase of waxy flame anthericum behind her. A Haitian iron sculpture hanging on the exposed-brick wall takes note of...
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The Washington Post
Encore to a Tragedy; Cruel Coincidence Gave Paul Marshall and His Son a Lot in Common
09/29/1992: 2,994 words, approx. 10 pages
Leon Simms would not have been there at all if fireworks were legal in Maryland. But because 11-year-old boys cannot shoot off explosives where Leon lives, his mother let him and his brother return to their old Southeast neighborhood, the neighborhood she feared, to...
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AP Analysis: Episcopal choices
2/22/2007: 769 words, approx. 3 pages
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 acceptance of gays, or lose your place in the global Anglican family.Now, Episcopalians are asking themselves whether the...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Marilyn Nelson Waniek
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In the following essay, Waniek explores the themes of alienation and duality as reflected in Paule Marshall's short fiction.
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Critical Essay by Leela Kapai
2,588 words, approx. 9 pages
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 remarkable maturity in her work, she displays a subtle understanding of human problems and a mastery of the art of fiction. Some of the major themes in her works concern the identity crisis, the race problem, the importance of tradition for the black American, and the need for sharing to achieve meaningful relationships. In her technique she b...
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Critical Essay by Lloyd W. Brown
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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 unfortunate, because Paule Marshall's major themes are both significant and timely. Her West Indian background (Barbadian parentage) enables Paule Marshall to invest her North American materials with a Caribbean perspective, and in the process she invokes that Pan-African sensibility which has become so important in contemporary definiti...
 


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