Ebook {Epub PDF} The Chosen Place The Timeless People by Paule Marshall

Marshall's strength as an author of fiction lies in her ability to write rich, detailed characterizations. Throughout "The Chosen Place, the Timeless People," the variety of ages, races, class identities, and cultural backgrounds is woven into a fascinating narrative about a fictional Caribbean island in the early throes of multi-national post-industrial capitalism/5(18).  · Paule Marshall's novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People is a big story. It tries to encompass all of post-colonial history, the trials and tribulations of descendants of African slaves. The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. When the advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, the tense, ambivalent relationships that evolve, between natives and foreigners, black and whites, haves and have-nots, keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of Cited by:

Find The Chosen Place, the Timeless People by Marshall, Paule at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall. Vintage. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Paule Marshall's second novel, The Chosen Place, the Timeless People () is thematically the culmination of almost all her concerns as a novelist. Written on the cusp of both the feminist and Pan-African movements, it concerns itself not only with personal as well as public revolution in terms of both revolt and coming full circle to self-actualization, but also ageism, Western hegemony.

The chosen place is the fictional and remote Bourne Island in the Caribbean and its timeless people are its inhabitants, mostly poor blacks whose ancestral legacy was slavery. Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless Peoples examines The higher echelons of the social lan dscape of Bourne Islan d may Caribbe an historical an d socio-economic develop ment by present­ now include a local Black an d mulatto elite with a small share of ing a relationship between two wo men, one Black, one White, power, but the old structures continue in place-the economic and whose legacies and destinies are bound by the peculiar history of cultu ral survi val of the people is. Paule Marshall is the author of Brown Girl, Brownstones, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, Praisesong for the Widow, Soul Clap Hands and Sing, Reena and Other Stories, and Daughters. Born and.