Thinking Back Through the Mother: The Poetics of Place and the Mother/Daughter Dyad in Brown Girl, Brownstones

• Published in: The Black scholar Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 34 - 40
• Main Author: McGill, Lisa D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Routledge 01.07.2000; Black World Foundation; Taylor & Francis Group LLC; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: African American authors; African American culture; African American literature; African American writers; African Americans; American literature; Community Relations; Criticism and interpretation; Daughters; Dyadic relations; Females; Feminism; Feminist literary theory; Feminist literature; Fiction; Friendship; Literary criticism; Marshall, Paule (1929-2019); Mother-daughter relations; Mothers; Mothers and daughters; Narratives; Novels; Personal relationships; Poetics; Portrayals; Postmodern literature; Topography; Women; Women authors; Women writers; United States

The author asserts that African-American feminist author Paule Marshall's works contradict mainstream feminist perspectives of literary works, which focus on matrophobic theoretical frameworks. This article evaluates the portrayal of black mothers and the perception of them by their daughters;...