A Human Necklace The African Diaspora and Paule Marshalls Fiction

State University of New York Press

A Human NecklaceThe African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's Fiction\nAuthor(s): Moira Ferguson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438444185, 978-1438444185\nSynopsis\nArgues that Paule Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.\n\nFrom Brown Girl, Brownstones [tel] to The Fisher King [tel], Paule Marshall's novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as well as emotional and geographical paths toward their ancestors. In this, the first critical study to address all of Marshall's fiction, Moira Ferguson argues that Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents. In creating a space for her characters' interrupted lives and those of their elders and ancestors,.