African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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187 p., Traces the development of the writer’s Afrocentric vision showing how Marshall’s creative sensibility has evolved—from American to African-American, African-Caribbean, and, finally, Pan-African—and how her distinctive literary style combines Western forms with elements from the African oral tradition.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
173 p, Focuses on two motifs in Marshall's fiction: the "fractired psyche" a consequence of slavery and dispersion, and the journey towards spiritual wholeness whose end is healing within African based community. (JSTOR);
