Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of
African American and Caribbean American literature. In 1959, she
published her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and was quickly
recognized as a writer of great talent and insight on important
questions about gender, race, and immigration in American society.
In 1981, the Feminist Press rediscovered her novel and reprinted
it, earning Marshall the informal title of leader of the
renaissance of African American women's writing that emerged in the
early 1970s. Over the course of her fifty-year career, Marshall has
published five novels, two collections of short stories, numerous
essays, and a memoir. In recognition of her work, she has received
grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for
the Arts, and, in 1992, the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
Conversations with Paule Marshall is the first collection of her
interviews, and as such it provides the first comprehensive account
of the stages of this writer's life. The most recent conversation
took place in 2009 following the publication of her memoir,
Triangular Road; the oldest takes readers back to 1971, just after
the publication of her second novel, The Chosen Place, the Timeless
People. In this collection of interviews, Marshall discusses the
sources of her writing, her involvement in the civil rights
movement, her understanding of the relationship between art and
politics (as framed, in part, by her discussions with Maya Angelou
and Malcolm X), and her evolving understanding of the relationship
between the wide wings of the African diaspora.
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