Reena and Other Stories Including the Novella Merle |
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| Author:
| Marshall, Paule |
| ISBN: | 978-0-935312-24-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
| Publisher: | Feminist Press at The City University of New York
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $13.95 |
Book Description:
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This collection of short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. Opening the volume is the much-acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," which pays homage to the hard-working, storytelling West Indian women who serve as her muses--women who fought back against oppression and invisibility using the only weapon at their command: the spoken word. Such women appear in her luminous short stories, which travel from Brooklyn to Barbados and back again.
This collection of short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. Opening the volume is the much-acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen," which pays homage to the hard-working, storytelling West Indian women who serve as her muses--women who fought back against oppression and invisibility using the only weapon at their command: the spoken word. Such women appear in her luminous short stories, which travel from Brooklyn to Barbados and back again.