A Human Necklace

A Human NecklaceArgues that Paule Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents. From Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) to The Fisher King (2000), Paule Marshall's novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as well as emotional and geographical paths toward their ancestors. In this, the first critical study to address all

their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century

Part II engages Merleau-Ponty with the "many voices" of postmodernism

offering two detailed case studies based on tomatoes and Brassica oleracea vegetables

engrossing them in the story of a man’s foolish mistake

from the Warring States period until today

LGBTQIA+ bias

divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China

and beyond-to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of the inheritance of survival

The book moves from an existential phenomenology of the knowing and choosing subject through affirmation of a processive and liberating Christ to a critique and overcoming of neo-imperialism

the term has an even grimmer meaning: toting up the butcher's bill of war and genocide

Indigenous Bodies extends this scholarship in exciting new ways

This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement