Territoriality and identity negotiation: the questioning of home in Paule Marshal´s <i>Brown girl, Brownstones</i>

Authors

  • Denise Almeida Silva Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões (URI)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/cadletrasuff.2012n45a467

Keywords:

identity, territoriality, Paule Marshall.

Abstract

Taking as its object of representation of the African- Caribbean migration experience in New York in Paule Marshall’s novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, this essay analyzes how place, especially home memories and its lived experience, affect identity construction. After an initial introduction, home is defined and its influences on the formation of individual structural cosmologies are considered before textual analysis proper.

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Author Biography

Denise Almeida Silva, Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões (URI)

Doutora em Letras pela UFRGS (2000), e professo­ra vinculada ao Departamento de Linguística, Letras e Artes da Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões (URI), campus de Frederico Westphalen, onde também é subcoordenadora do Programa de Pós-Gradua­ção em Letras. Suas linhas de pesquisa são Literatura,–História e Memória e Comparatismo e Processos Culturais. Além de ensaios e capítulos de livros em publicações nacionais e internacionais, coorganizou, com Conceição Evaristo, Literatura, história, etnicidade e educação (URI, 2011); com Marcelo Marinho e Rosani K. Umbach,–Musas na Encruzilhada, de autoria de D.- H. Pageaux (URI/ Hucitec/ UFSM, 2011), e com André Mitidieri,Texto Dramático (URI, 2010) e Machado de Assis: novos olhares (URI, 2009).

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Published

2012-12-30

How to Cite

SILVA, D. A. Territoriality and identity negotiation: the questioning of home in Paule Marshal´s <i>Brown girl, Brownstones</i>. Caderno de Letras da UFF, v. 22, n. 45, 30 Dec. 2012.

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Vol. 22 No. 45 (2012): Central America and the Caribean: multiple viewpoints

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