Toward a Theory of Yere Wolo: Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Paule Marshall's Brown Girl Brownstones as Coming of Age Narratives

This study, using Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Paule Marshall's Brown Girl Brownstones, explores these novels as coming of age narratives that challenge the bildungsroman genre and these novels are therefore placed in a new theoretical model termed Yere-wolo. Cliff and Marshall illuminate th...

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Other Authors: Ford, Na'Imah Hanan (authoraut)
Format: Others
Language:English
English
Published: Florida State University
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Online Access:http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-4423