About the Book

REMEMBERING Paule is the compelling story of two friends, novelist Paule Marshall and folklorist and literary critic Daryl Cumber Dance, both committed truth-tellers, teachers, cultural critics, writers, and activists who wielded their pens to revolutionize their literary world. Marshall is often hailed as the matriarch of the Black Women’s Literary Renaissance. Her Brown Girl, Brownstones signaled a new day in African Diasporic women’s writing. Daryl Dance has been dubbed ‘the Dean of American folklore’ for her work in African American and Jamaican folklore.

About the Author

Daryl Cumber Dance has achieved renown for her classic studies and collections such as Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans; Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans; Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore; Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook; New World Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers; Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor; The Lineage of Abraham: The Biography of a Free Black Family in Charles City, VA; From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore; In Search of Annie Drew, the Mother, and Muse of Jamaica Kincaid; Here Am I: Miscellaneous Meanderings, Meditations, Memoirs, and Melodramas; and her fiction, Till Death Us Did Part: A Story of Four Widows and Land of the Free… Negroes.  

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