LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 21:5 May 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

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Quest for Identity in the Select Novels of Paule Marshall

G. Vimala, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Dr. R. Sheela Banu, Associate Professor


Paule Marshall (1929-2019)
Courtesy: https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/by-paule-marshall

Paule Marshall insists on the necessity for a journey back through her novels. In particular, her novels reveal her multicultural background of African-American-Caribbean. In American history, Black women faced many struggles and miseries. Problems confronted by them are exposed by the writers. The works done by Paule Marshall consist of memories of people who are in need of freedom and freedom from slavery. Her novels include identity crisis, need for searching the importance of tradition, blend and highlight the role of collective memory in identity building, and stress the necessity of creating the process of memorial recovery. In her novels the recurring theme is the journey into the past, moving closer to one’s cultural background.

Women in Paule Marshall’s works confront the world courageously as self-reliant individuals. They possess the inner strength, the strong sense of perception, the courage to fight the cruelty of real life and desire to achieve their dreams and hopes. Above all, search for identity plays a prominent role in all her novels.

In an interview for Essence magazine, Marshall says “Traditionally in most fiction men are the wheelers and dealers. They are the ones in whom power is invested. I wanted to turn that around. I wanted women to be the centres of power. My feminism takes its expression through my work. Women are central for me. They can as easily embody the power principles as a man.”

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G. Vimala, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Govt. Arts College
Salem 636 007
Tamil Nadu
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Dr. R. Sheela Banu
Associate Professor
Dept. of English
Govt. Arts College
Salem 636 007
Tamil Nadu
rsheelabanu@gmail.com
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