Gloria Naylor's Early Novels Edited
by Margot Anne Kelley These essays about the important
contemporary African-American novelist Gloria Naylor
explore themes of race, class, domesticity, and sexual identity--the complex issues that contribute
to Naylor's popularity with the general public as well as
to her importance in the academy. They show how her novels function
individually and how the first four—The Women of
Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985),
Bailey’s Café (1992), and Mama Day
(1993)--work together as a quartet. The essays illuminate
Naylor’s vision of a universe that is rich,
complicated, and fraught with possibility and
impossibility--a world in which "everything got four
sides . . . [and] 2. Women's Screams and Women's Laughter: Connections and Creations in Gloria Naylor's Novels, by Jenny Brantley 3. "Weapons Against Women": Compulsory Heterosexuality and Capitalism in Linden Hills, by Kimberly A. Costino 4. Good Housekeeping: Domestic Ritual in Gloria Naylor's Fiction, by Maxine Lavon Montgomery 5. Metaphor and Maternity in Mama Day, by Amy K. Levin 6. Africana Womanist Revision in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Bailey's Café, by Dorothy Perry Thompson 7. "Into the Midst of Nothing": Gloria Naylor and the DiffJrance, by Philip Page 8. Framing the Possibilities:
Collective Agency and the Novels of Gloria Naylor, by
Margot Anne Kelley
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