LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:8 August 2020
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Essence of Paule Marshall’s Novels

G. Vimala, M.A., M.Ed., M.Phil.

Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (1929-2019)
Courtesy: http://www.projecthbw.ku.edu/uncategorized/remembering-paule-marshall/

Paule Marshall was born in 1929 at Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn, New York. She visited her parents’ birthplace, Barbados, for the first time at the age of nine. Marshall graduated from Brooklyn College in 1953 and graduate school at Hunter College in 1955. Early in her life, Marshall wrote a series of poems reflecting impressions of Barbados. Later, she turned to fiction. She has published short stories and articles in various magazines. She is best known for her novels and collections of short stories: Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), Soul Clap Hands and Sing (1961), The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969), Praisesong for the Widow (1983), Reena and Other Short Stories (1983), and Daughters (1991). Marshall has lectured on black literature at universities and colleges such as Oxford University, Columbia University, Michigan State University, and Cornell University. She holds a distinguished chair in creative writing at New York University. Her fiction is characterized by narration in related to African diasporic identity.” She showcases in her fiction the success and failures of the West Indian immigrants living in America.

Paule Marshall grew up in a bicultural environment rich with the folklore and language of Barbados. Marshall did not visit Barbados until she was nine years old. The island culture was made real to her by the lively conversation of her mother’s friends around the kitchen table. Their metaphoric, often ironic language inspired her attempts to find a narrative voice in her literary career. Richard Sandomir says, “Through five novels and several collections of short stories and novellas, Ms. Marshall created strong female characters, evoked the linguistic rhythms of Barbadian speech, and forged an early link between the African-American and Caribbean literary canons.

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