African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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196 p, Includes chapters "Of mangoes and maroons : language, history, and the multicultural subject of Michelle Cliff's Abeng," "Toward a new antillean humanism: Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove," "Inscriptions of exile: the body's knowledge and the myth of authenticity in Myriam Warner-Vieyra and Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie," and "Geographies of pain: captive bodies and violent acts in Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Gayl Jones, and Bessie Head"
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.
