Maud Martha

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Maud Martha is a 1953 novel in vignettes by Gwendolyn Brooks that portrays the interior life and everyday struggles of a young Black woman on Chicago’s South Side.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
novel
author Gwendolyn Brooks
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts Black womanhood
class struggle
colorism
everyday life
marriage
motherhood
racism
urban life
genre African-American literature
coming-of-age novel
domestic fiction
novel in vignettes
realist fiction
hasSubject young Black woman on Chicago’s South Side
hasTheme beauty and self-worth
domestic life
economic hardship
family relationships
gender roles
identity
interior life of a Black woman
ordinary joys
racial discrimination
resilience
urban segregation
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement African American literature
surface form: African-American literature movement

post-Harlem Renaissance literature
mainCharacter Maud Martha Brown
narrativeStructure series of vignettes
notableFor lyrical prose style
portrayal of everyday Black life in Chicago
originalLanguage English
protagonist Maud Martha Brown
publicationDate 1953
publisher Harper & Brothers
settingLocation Chicago
South Side, Chicago
surface form: Chicago’s South Side
timePeriodOfSetting 1930s
1940s
World War II era
mid-20th century

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Gwendolyn Brooks notableWork Maud Martha