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Marshall, Paule
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(born April 9, 1929, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y., U.S.) novelist whose works emphasize the need for black Americans to reclaim their African heritage. The Barbadian background of Marshall's parents was to inform all her work. After graduating from...
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Marshall, Paule
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(born April 9, 1929, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. writer. She was born to Barbadian parents and attended Brooklyn College. Her autobiographical first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), was acclaimed for its acute rendition of dialogue. Her short...
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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...


Quotations
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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...


News and Journals
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Orange County Business Journal
Person To Watch: Paul Marshall
12/20/2004: 426 words, approx. 1 pages
Paul Marshall plans to do it all during the next 12 months: high-rise housing, an office tower, apartments, shops and industrial buildings. The gamut of projects marks the fruition of his labors, which began in 1997 with a simple assignment: build an operation...
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The New Crisis
Paule Marshall's people: Meeting the relatives
03/01/2001: 1,029 words, approx. 3 pages
With the publication of The Fisher King, her fifth novel, Paule Marshall reminded us that she is a national treasure. For more than 40 years this Brooklyn native has given us extraordinary stories by way of "ordinary" people. We have met Paule Marshall's people...
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AP News
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
4,472 words, approx. 15 pages
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
1,525 words, approx. 5 pages
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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