Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of African American and Caribbean American literature. In 1959, she published her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and was quickly recognized as a writer of great talent and insight on important questions about gender, race, and immigration in American society. In 1981, the Feminist Press rediscovered her novel and reprinted it, earning Marshall the informal title of mother of the renaissance of African American women's writing that emerged in the early 1970s. Over the course of her fifty-year career, Marshall has published five novels, two collections of short stories, numerous essays, and a memoir. In recognition of her work, she has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and, in 1992, the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Conversations with Paule Marshall is the first collection of her interviews, and as such it provides the first comprehensive account of the stages of this writer's life. The most recent conversation took place in 2009 following the publication of her memoir, Triangular Road; the oldest takes readers back to 1971, just after the publication of her second novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People. James C. Hall is director of the New College at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties. Heather Hathaway is associate professor of English at Marquette University and the author of Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall.

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	240
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	University Press of Mississippi
Fecha de Publicación	2010-09-17
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.63" pulgadas
Serie	Literary Conversations
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Afroamericano, Afroamericano, Femenino, Femenino

Hall, James C.

James C. Hall is dean of the University Studies Division and executive director of the School of Individualized Study at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties.

Hathaway, Heather

Heather Hathaway is associate professor of English at Marquette University and author of Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall.