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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1959

Genre
  
Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1959

ISBN
  
978-1558614987

Author
  
Paule Marshall

Publisher
  
Random House

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Followed by
  
Soul Clap Hands and Sing

Characters
  
Selina Boyce, Silla Boyce, Deighton Boyce, Maritze, Suggie Skeete, Ina Boyce, Beryl, Miss Mary

Similar
  
Paule Marshall books, Fiction books

Brown Girl, Brownstones is the first novel by the internationally recognized writer Paule Marshall, published in 1959. It is about Bajan immigrants in Brooklyn, New York. The book gained widespread recognition after it was reprinted in 1981 by the Feminist Press. It was dramatized by CBS Television Workshop in 1960.

Criticism

  • Martin, Japtok (Summer 1998). "Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones: reconciling ethnicity and individualism". African American Review. 32 (2): 305–315. doi:10.2307/3042127. 
  • Benston, Kimberly W. "Architectural Imagery and Unity in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones" Negro American Literature Forum, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 67–70.
  • Hathaway, Heather, "From Dislocation to Dual Location: Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones", in Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall, Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 86–118.

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