The development of identity is at the core of Brown Girl, Brownstones, and in its related books The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (1969) and Praisesong for the Widow (1983). Through the eyes of Selina Boyce, the reader sees the struggles of her mother Silla and the women of her Barbadian Brooklyn neighborhood, which is the major setting of the novel. Deighton Boyce, Selina's father, represents a back-homein-Barbados mentality, a kind of fantasy of spirit, gentleness, love, passion, and warmth. Silla comes to reflect a cold, unfeeling, competitive.....
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