James C Hall

Conversations with Paule Marshall - Literary Conversations Series James C Hall

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chronology -- A Discussion with Dr. Hiram Haydn and Others on The Chosen Place, the Timeless People / Hiram Haydn -- Re-Creating Ourselves All Over the World: A Conversation with Paule Marshall / 'Molara Ogundipe-Leslie -- In Celebration of Our Triumph / Alexis De Veaux -- A Talk with Mary Helen Washington / Mary Helen Washington -- Talk as a Form of Action: An Interview with Paule Marshall / Sabine Brock -- PW Interviews Paule Marshall / Sally Lodge -- Interview with Paule Marshall / Sandi Russell -- A MELUS Interview: Paule Marshall / Joyce Pettis -- An Interview with Paule Marshall / Daryl Cumber Dance -- Holding onto the Vision: Sylvia Baer Interviews Paule Marshall / Sylvia Baer -- The Booklist Interview: Paule Marshall / Donna Seaman -- Meditations on Language and the Self: A Conversation with Paule Marshall / Melody Graulich, Lisa Sisco -- To Be in the World: An Interview with Paule Marshall / Angela Elam -- The Art and Politics of Paule Marshall: An Interview / James Hall, Heather Hathaway -- Paule Marshall on Race and Memory / Dawn Raffel -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of African American and Caribbean American literature. In 1959, she published her first novel, "Brown Girl, Brownstones," and was quickly recognized as a writer of great talent and insight on important questions about gender, race, and immigration in American society. In 1981, the Feminist Press rediscovered her novel and reprinted it, earning Marshall the informal title of grandmother of the renaissance of African American women's writing that emerged in the early 1970s. Over the course of her fifty-year career, Marshall has published five novels, two collections of short stories, numerous essays, and a memoir. In recognition of her work, she has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and, in 1992, the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship."Conversations with Paule Marshall" is the first collection of her interviews, and as such it provides the first comprehensive account of the stages of this writer's life. The most recent conversation took place in 2009 following the publication of her memoir, "Triangular Road"; the oldest takes readers back to 1971, just after the publication of her second novel, "The Chosen Place, the Timeless People." In this collection of interviews, Marshall discusses the sources of her writing, her involvement in the civil rights movement, her understanding of the relationship between art and politics (as framed, in part, by her discussions with Maya Angelou and Malcolm X), and her evolving understanding of the relationship between the wide wings of the African diaspora.

Contributor Bio:  Hall, James C James C. Hall, a professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is the author of "Mercy, Mercy, Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties" and editor of "Langston Hughes: A Collection of Poems". Contributor Bio:  Hathaway, Heather Heather Hathaway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is associate professor of English at Marquette University and the author of "Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall ".