Brown Girl, Bronstones, P. Marshall
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Like many immigrant and/or minority writers, Paule Marshall’s first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, is semi-autobiographical. However, it is also like many works of this breed of writer because it details its heroine’s, Selina Boyce, coming-of-age as she reclaims her cultural and spiritual voice. It is also representative of the human condition, in that the experiences Marshall shares of her existence embody warmth, humor and tragedy. The story we are told of Selina, an adolescent black girl growing up in a New York West Indian community, demonstrates the issues and challenges that confront the American-born daughter of Caribbean parents. One of these is the gender dynamics within the black community. Another is being black in a predominantly white sociopolitical structure. A third is the dynamics between American-born children and their native-born immigrant parents, ground that Amy Tan would later cover so well in The Joy Luck Club. We see two of these issues illuminated when Selina discusses the treatment o
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Approximate Word count = 717
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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