Wanting brownstones : why Brooklyn? -- Soul clap hands and sing : sadness, resistance, redemption -- A "nation of diabetics" meets empire -- Water and nomenclature : Praisesong for the widow -- Paule Marshall's Daughters : wars of independence -- The fisher king : new beginnings and a culmination.
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