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Coser, Stelamaris. "Bridging the Americas: The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones," University of Minnesota, October 1991. Advisor: George Lipsitz (2,1,22)
My dissertation examines some inter-American characteristics in work developed in the last three decades by black women writers from the United States. Even as the recent “Renaissance” of literature by black women suggests parallel developments with the so-called “Boom” of Latin American writers, novels by Marshall, Morrison, and Jones also represent an affirmation, unprecedented in U.S. literature, of a sense of proximity and commonality between the Americas, particularly the shared heritage of colonialism and racism in the coasts and fields of the “extended Caribbean.” Their articulation of a multicultural and polyglot inter-Americanness assumes special significance as the year 1992 calls forth a dynamic reinterpretation of New World myths, traditions, and conflicts.
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