'Re/visioning' the self away from home
autobiographical and cross-cultural dimensions in the works of Paule Marshall
by Bernhard Melchior
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"'Re/Visioning'" explores, analyzes, and contextualizes the literary voices of West Indian women writers living in the United States emerging in the 1980's. Despite having published since 1959, Barbadian American writer Paule Marshall is in the forefront of the movement. The autobiographical and cross-cultural dimensions of her four novels to date involve the reader in typical imaginative reverberations of cross-cultural experience and existence.
General considerations about a sensible critical approach and the usefulness of autobiography criticism in this context are followed by a comprehensive analysis of Paule Marshall's oeuvre. In exemplary fashion, detailed readings of Praisesong for the Widow (1983) and Daughters (1991) in particular illustrate the author's textual/textural act of re/viewing and en/visioning the indivisible cross-cultural implications of her West Indian American experience.
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African Americans in literature, American Autobiographical fiction, Autobiographical fiction, American, Criticism and interpretation, Culture conflict in literature, Exiles in literature, History, History and criticism, Home in literature, In literature, Self in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, American fiction, women authors, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Autobiographical fiction, history and criticism, Culture conflict, United states, in literaturePeople
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'Re/visioning' the self away from home: autobiographical and cross-cultural dimensions in the works of Paule Marshall
1998, P. Lang, Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
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3631323190 9783631323199
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-358).
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Bamberg, 1996.
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