Add to ORKGPaule Marshall\u27s Praisesong for the Widow is an account of maturation or, put another way, of a black woman\u27s willingness to confront her emergent self. Tastefully groomed, sixty-four year old Avatarra Avey Johnson leaves her suburban New York home to vacation with two friends on a West Indies cruise. Her decision to interrupt her plans, shortly after arriving at one of the destinations, is a surprise to everyone. Avey is compelled to discount the material investment she has made in the trip in order to follow a mind that has been haunted by dreams of her great aunt Cuney
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[First paragraph] The Fiction of Paule Marshall: Reconstructions of History, Culture, and Gende...
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In the last ten years a number of critical studies on the Harlem Renaissance have been published, an...
African people have been a presence in Europe for thousands of years. As the author notes, Julius C...
When Marian Anderson passed away in April 1993 at the age of ninety-seven, the distinguished contral...
[First paragraph] The Fiction of Paule Marshall: Reconstructions of History, Culture, and Gende...
Paule Marshall has been called one of the best novelists writing in the United States, and almost...
Review of: A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller and the Promise of American Life, 1878-1900. Woods, Ra...
Review of: All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952. Huftalen, Sarah ...
Like much of her music, Miriam Makeba\u27s autobiography is both personal and political. As it detai...
He was one of the foremost orators and abolitionists of the 19th century. He was also a feminist who...
Maggie\u27s American Dream is a poignant story about the struggles and achievements of the Comer fam...
This book is a recorded autobiography, but it is also much more. In the preface Blackman traces her ...
The search for an untouched Native voice in American Indian autobiography, both experientially and...
The history of the Americas, one first of imperialism, second of slavery, is one of which we are awa...
Jo Ann Robinson, a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott, offers a new and convincing accoun...
In an overgrown cemetery in the old village of Stateburg, South Carolina, a hundred miles north of C...
In the last ten years a number of critical studies on the Harlem Renaissance have been published, an...
African people have been a presence in Europe for thousands of years. As the author notes, Julius C...
When Marian Anderson passed away in April 1993 at the age of ninety-seven, the distinguished contral...