Brown Girl, Brownstones
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Cover of Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959)
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Author | Paule Marshall |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Random House |
Publication date
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1959 |
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ISBN | 978-1558614987 |
Followed by | Soul Clap Hands and Sing |
Brown Girl, Brownstones is the first novel by the internationally recognized writer Paule Marshall, published in 1959. It is about Bajan immigrants in Brooklyn, New York. The book gained widespread recognition after it was reprinted in 1981 by the Feminist Press.[1] It was dramatized by CBS Television Workshop in 1960.[2]
Criticism
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- Benston, Kimberly W. "Architectural Imagery and Unity in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones" Negro American Literature Forum, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 67–70.
- Hathaway, Heather, "From Dislocation to Dual Location: Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones", in Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall, Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 86–118.
References
- ↑ Edwin McDowell, "Publishing: Paule Marshall's Success", The New York Times, October 30, 1981.
- ↑ "Brown Girl, Brownstones" at IMDb.
External links
- Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, ""Travellin’ woman", The Caribbean Review of Books, May 2010.
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