The Critical Difference: Paule Marshall's Personal and Literary Legacy
2000; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 30; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00064246.2000.11431084
ISSN2162-5387
Autores Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
ResumoMarshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones, published in 1959, was singularly important event, ushering in new age of writing by black women that would command attention for the decades following. But 1959 could not have seemed an auspicious year for the publication of black, ethnic bildungsroman. Segregation prevailed in most of America; the civil rights struggle had barely begun. The problem was still that of the color line, as Du Bois had predicted in would be for the twentieth century. Neither was America a melting pot for its black-ethnic immigrants, their race preventing full assimilation and revealing the racial duplicity at the heart of the myths of American inclusiveness.
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