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The Critical response to Gloria Naylor

Title
  1. The Critical response to Gloria Naylor / edited by Sharon Felton and Michelle C. Loris.
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  1. Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1997.

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Additional authors
  1. Felton, Sharon.
  2. Loris, Michelle Carbone, 1946-
Description
  1. xi pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 275 pages; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Critical responses in arts and letters, 1057-0993 ; no. 29
Uniform title
  1. Critical responses in arts and letters ; no. 29.
Subject
  1. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  2. Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  3. Naylor, Gloria > Criticism and interpretation
  4. African Americans in literature
  5. African American women in literature
Contents
  1. Series Foreword / Cameron Northouse -- Introduction / Sharon Felton and Michelle C. Loris -- The Women of Brewster Place. Beyond the Myth of Confrontation: A Comparative Study of African and African-American Female Protagonists / Ebele Eko. A Womanist Way of Speaking: An Analysis of Language in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place / Cheryl Lynn Johnson. Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place / Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter. The Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Motif in The Women of Brewster Place / Maxine L. Montgomery. From the Hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's Faith of the Spirit / James Robert Saunders -- Linden Hills. The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners / Mary F. Sisney. Dominion and Proprietorship in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Linden Hills / Nellie Boyd. Narrative Structure in Linden Hills / Grace E. Collins.
  2. The Confluence of Food and Identity in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills: 'What We Eat is Who We Is' / Charles P. Toombs. 'giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts': Gloria Naylor and Walt Whitman / Christine G. Berg -- Mama Day. 'The Whole Picture' in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Susan Meisenhelder. The Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Suzanne Juhasz. Recovering the Conjure Woman: Texts and Contexts in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Lindsey Tucker. Reconstructing American History: Land and Genealogy in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Helene Christol. 'The Only Voice is Your Own': Gloria Naylor's Revision of The Tempest / Gary Storhoff. Gloria Naylor's Mama Day as Magic Realism / Elizabeth T. Hayes -- Bailey's Cafe. Authority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe / Maxine Lavon Montgomery. Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe: A Panic Reading of Bailey's Narrative / Angela diPace.
  3. Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt / Karah Stokes. The Dream Defined: Bailey's Cafe and the Reconstruction of American Cultural Identities / William R. Nash. Living with the Abyss in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe / Philip Page. 'Two Warring Ideals in One Dark Body': Universalism and Nationalism in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe / Rebecca S. Wood -- Interview: "The Human Spirit Is a Kick-Ass Thing" / Michelle C. Loris and Sharon Felton.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-269) and index.