Byline: JOSHUNDA SANDERS
Critically acclaimed filmmaker Julie Dash transforms the captivating narrative from her cinematic debut ``Daughters of the Dust'' into a literary achievement of the same name with a first novel that inspires from beginning to end. Dash approaches the complexities of tradition in the African-American community, in addition to issues of acculturation, oratory, and power dynamics through the collective imagination of The Peazant family.
Amelia Varnes, a third-generation member of the clan, travels to the Sea Islands off the Carolina coast in order to study the culture and heritage of the Gullah people for anthropological fieldwork. The Gullah -- distinctive in their speech and tradition due to a history of surviving on …
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