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Gloria Naylor's Early Novels (literary criticism) » Read Now
by Margot Anne Kelley. 196 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Essays that explore the themes of race, class, domesticity, & sexual identity.
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Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor » Read Now
by Helen Fiddyment Levy. 280 pgs.

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...its seen its share of pain. -- Gloria Naylor Mama Day 1988 . Success...7. Lead On with Light: GLORIA NAYLOR 196 8. Conclusion...Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Gloria...
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Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel (Chap. 1 "The Wheel of Life: Eudora Welty and Gloria Naylor") » Read Now
by Thelma J. Shinn. 180 pgs.

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An exciting study of novels by ten women writers who have combined the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life.
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Gloria Naylor: A Critical Companion » Read Now
by Charles E. Wilson Jr.. 184 pgs.

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The Ethnographer's Story: Mama Day and the Specter of Relativism, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Robin Blyn. 26 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...here from beyond the bridge. --Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (3) Nowhere is the...literature" ("Partial Truths" 6, 26)? Gloria Naylors 1988 novel Mama Day represents...Strategies...
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"The Only Voice Is Your Own": Gloria Naylor's Revision of 'The Tempest,' in African American Review » Read Now
by Gary Storhoff. 11 pgs.

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..."The only voice is your own": Gloria Naylors revision of The Tempest. by Gary Storhoff In Gloria Naylors novel Mama Day, Reemas boy comes...48-71. Christian, Barbara. "...
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The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction (Chap. 7 "Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place") » Read Now
by Maxine Lavon Montgomery. 132 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

In this exploration of the relationship between biblical apocalypse and black fiction, Maxine Montgomery argues that American writers see apocalyptic events in an intermediate and secular sense, as a tenable response to racial oppression. This work analyzes the characters, plots, and themes of seven novels that rely on the apocalyptic trope.
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Rewriting the Word: American Women Writers and the Bible (Chap. Three "Writing Home: The Bible and Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon") » Read Now
by Amy Benson Brown. 194 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Women writers have often felt alienated from both the Bible and the canonical literary tradition that has been built on its foundation. Yet contemporary American women writers seem to be as haunted by the Bible as their nineteenth-century predecessors. This study of feminist biblical revision argues...
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Women writers have often felt alienated from both the Bible and the canonical literary tradition that has been built on its foundation. Yet contemporary American women writers seem to be as haunted by the Bible as their nineteenth-century predecessors. This study of feminist biblical revision argues that women writers' contentious dialogues with the Bible ultimately reconstruct the writers' own basis of authority. The author traces the evolution of this phenomenon from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and analyzes biblical revision in works by Emily Dickinson, H.D., Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Morrison.
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Suicide or Messianic Self-Sacrifice? Exhuming Willa's Body in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills, in African American Review » Read Now
by Christopher N. Okonkwo. 15 pgs.

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...Self-Sacrifice?: Exhuming Willas Body in Gloria Naylors Linden Hills by Christopher...contemporary Black womens fiction, Gloria Naylors Linden Hills (1985) has...
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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (Chap. 12 "'The Persistence of Tradition': The Retelling of Sea Islands Culture in Works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall") » Read Now
by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen. 336 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad...
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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the time of the Middle Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myth and arts, these contributions reconceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American history and fiction.
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Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African-American Fiction (Chap. 5 "'Listening below the Surface': Beyond the Boundaries in Gloria Naylor's Fiction") » Read Now
by Philip Page. 260 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

An examination of how the works of five African American writers reveal the power for communal bonds.
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Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers (Chap. 9 "Reviewing Gloria Naylor: Toward a Neo-African Critique") » Read Now
by Femi Ojo-Ade. 196 pgs.

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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through...
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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through provocative readings of prominent African-American writers, the contributors provide insights into contemporary African-American issues. This collection offers a rare opportunity to view African opinions on what it means to be African American.
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Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out ("Gloria Naylor" begins on p. 217) » Read Now
by Donna Perry. 372 pgs.

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This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of...
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This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of people, especially women, who have been silenced in the past. By breaking silence, these writers are changing the face of contemporary literature. In direct, provocative conversation, these writers discuss their work and other topics: the influence of family members and their native communities, getting started as writers, writing as women, the role of "literary tradition" in helping or hindering their growth, the responsibility of the writer to the community, the question of writing accessibly versus experimenting, the energizing power of anger, the politics of publishing, and the impact of one's race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or sexual orientation on getting read, published, and reviewed.
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Gloria Naylor" begins on p. 366) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 530 pgs.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically...
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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically arranged entries begins with a biographical sketch of the author, offers a judicious critical assessment of the author's major works, provides a representative sample of the critical responses the author's books have elicited, and concludes with a selected bibliography that lists the author's publications as well as useful secondary material. Included are entries for major figures, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, but many noteworthy young writers also receive the attention they deserve. Forty-one of the 79 writers discussed are women, and roughly a dozen of the novelists have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Intended for students and advanced scholars alike, the volume is sophisticated yet accessible to a wide audience.
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Healers in Gloria Naylor's Fiction, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Kathleen M. Puhr. 10 pgs.

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...Healers in Gloria Naylors fiction. by Kathleen M. Puhr...better presented than in the novels of Gloria Naylor. Less familiar than the triumvirate...Andrews, Larry R. "Black...
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Hearing Is Believing: Southern Racial Communities and Strategies of Story-Listening in Gloria Naylor and Lee Smith, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon. 20 pgs.

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...strategies of story-listening in Gloria Naylor and Lee Smith. by Jocelyn...genres available for performance, Gloria Naylor in Mama Day and Lee Smith in Oral...the role of...