SOURCE: Waniek, Marilyn Nelson. “Paltry Things: Immigrants and Marginal Men in Paule Marshall's Short Fiction.” Callaloo 6, no. 2(18) (spring 1983): 46-56.
In the following essay, Waniek explores the themes of alienation and duality as reflected in Paule Marshall's short fiction.
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