African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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233 p, Contents: Introduction. "Out of Many, One": A Case of Multiple Childhoods -- I. "The Ending Up Is the Starting Out": The Bildungsroman Re/formed -- II. "Behold the Great Image of Authority": African West Indian Male Initiation -- III. "His Great Struggle Beginning": African American Male Initiation -- IV. Womanish Girls: African American Female Initiation -- V. Journeys to Selfhood: African West Indian Female Initiation -- Conclusion. Ten Is the Age of Darkness -- Chronology of the African American Bildungsroman -- Chronology of the African West Indian Bildungsroman
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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);
