Shange, Ntozake: 1948-2017
Betsey Brown, 1985 - Information about the Book
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- The novel is about the coming of age of an upper-middle-class African American girl in the late 1950's, who is part of the first generation to experience desegregation. It deals with issues of family dynamics, community dynamics (especially in regard to race), and developing sexuality.
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- Review: "In attempting to convey the contrasting strands of thought within the black community on the eve of America's great civil rights era, Betsey Brown is successful in a literary if not always sociological manner." Mick Sinclair; November 1985
- Sentimental Romance Revisited in Ntozake Shange's Betsey Brown: "For African American women permanently exposed to physical abuse, fiction shaped an unattainable dream of social happiness—almost impossible to reach while in bondage." Corina Anghel Crisu; University of Bucharest, Roumania
- The Rich Multiplicity of Betsey Brown. Fall 1992