At the Bottom of the River (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elaine Potter Richardson
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Setting: Antigua
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, The Narrator’s Mother, The Narrator’s Father, The Red Woman
- Genres: Short fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Mothers, Parents and children, Philosophy or philosophers, Caribbean, Magic or magicians, Blacks, Gender roles, Immortality, Nature, Psychology or psychologists, Self, Supernatural, Superstition, Surrealism
- Locales: Antigua, West Indies
The Stories
At the Bottom of the River is a series of ten short, impressionistic pieces that might almost be better called “prose pieces” rather than stories. Though the stories develop and have plots, they do not follow most narrative conventions. They do, however, form a tightly connected unit, in that at the center of each tale is the pain of separation of a daughter from her mother.
Although At the Bottom of the River resists easy categorization, categories are helpful in understanding it. To an extent, the pieces in this book can be read...
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