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1. "You Ain No Real-Real Bajan Man": Brown Girl, Brownstones, and the Measure of Caribbean Manhood in the North American Terrain.

Author

Pitts, Candice A.

Subjects
MASCULINITY in literature, BARBADIANS, RACISM, MANNERS & customs
Abstract

An essay on the view of Caribbean manhood in North America in the 1959 novel "Brown Girl, Brownstones" by Paule Marshall is presented. Topics discussed include the expectation of immigrant Bajan women for Bajan men to provide home and sustenance for their families in a racist setting, and the men's simultaneous existence in a free Barbadian culture and in a responsibility-laden American society. Also noted is the Bajan man's possible creation of an alternative psychic space to attain peace.

Published
2015