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Brown girl, brownstones

Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, [1981] ©1959.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Feminist Press edView all editions and formats
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"Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wnats to "buy house" and educate her daughters, and her father, who longs to return to the land in Barbados. Selina seeks to define her own identity and values as she struggles to surmount the racism and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Feminist fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paule Marshall
ISBN: 0912670967 9780912670966 1558611495 9781558611498
OCLC Number: 8069815
Description: 324 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Paule Marshall ; with an afterword by Mary Helen Washington.

Abstract:

"Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this is the story of a Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. She is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wnats to "buy house" and educate her daughters, and her father, who longs to return to the land in Barbados. Selina seeks to define her own identity and values as she struggles to surmount the racism and poverty that surround her."--P. [4] of cover.

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