Title: 'Re/visioning' the self away from home
First published: 1998
Description: "'Re/Visioning'" explores, analyzes, and contextualizes the literary voices of West Indian women writers living in the United States emerging in the 1980's. Despite having published since 1959, Barbadian American writer Paule Marshall is in the forefront of the movement. The autobiographical and cross-cultural dimensions of her four novels to date involve the reader in typical imaginative reverberations of cross-cultural experience and existence.

General considerations about a sensible critical approach and the usefulness of autobiography criticism in this context are followed by a comprehensive analysis of Paule Marshall's oeuvre. In exemplary fashion, detailed readings of Praisesong for the Widow (1983) and Daughters (1991) in particular illustrate the author's textual/textural act of re/viewing and en/visioning the indivisible cross-cultural implications of her West Indian American experience.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, American Autobiographical fiction, Autobiographical fiction, American, Criticism and interpretation, Culture conflict in literature, Exiles in literature, History, History and criticism, Home in literature, In literature, Self in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, American fiction, women authors, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Autobiographical fiction, history and criticism, Culture conflict, United states, in literature
Places: Caribbean Area, United States
People: Paule Marshall (1929-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3563.A7223 Z77 1998