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Comprehensive collection of literary criticism on Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills, Mama Day, and Bailey's Cafe.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
Chronology
Introduction by 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 by 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 by Cheryl Lynn Johnson
Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place by Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter
The Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Motif in The Women of Brewster Place by Maxine L. Montgomery
From the Hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's Faith of the Spirit by James Robert Saunders
Linden Hills
The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners by Mary F. Sisney
Dominion and Proprietorship in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Linden Hills by Nellie Boyd
Narrative Structure in Linden Hills by Grace E. Collins
The Confluence of Food and Identity in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills: "What We Eat Is Who We Is" by Charles P. Toombs
'giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts': Gloria Naylor and Walt Whitman by Christine G. Berg
Mama Day
'The Whole Picture' in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Susan Meisenhelder
The Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Suzanne Juhasz
Recovering the Conjure Woman: Texts and Contexts in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Lindsey Tucker
Reconstructing American History: Land and Genealogy in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Hélène Christol
'The Only Voice is Your Own': Gloria Naylor's Revision of The Tempest by Gary Storhoff
Gloria Naylor's Mama Day as Magic Realism by Elizabeth T. Hayes
Bailey's Cafe
Authority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Maxine L. Montgomery
Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe: A Panic Reading of Bailey's Narrative by Angela diPace
Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt by Karah Stokes
The Dream Defined: Bailey's Cafe and the Reconstruction of American Cultural Identities by William R. Nash
Living with the Abyss in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Philip Page
'Two Warring Ideals in One Dark Body': Universalism and Nationalism in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Rebecca S. Wood
Interview: The Human Spirit Is a Kick-Ass Thing" by Michelle C. Loris and Sharon Felton
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

SHARON FELTON is a specialist in modern and contemporary American and British literature and women's writing. She has been an Assistant Professor of English at the Waterbury campus of the University of Connecticut and at Austin Peay State University. She is the editor of The Critical Response to Joan Didion (Greenwood, 1993) and has published articles and reviews in The Hollins Critic, Connecticut Review, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in Short Fiction, and other journals.

MICHELLE C. LORIS is a Professor at Sacred Heart University, where she teaches American Literature, Women's Studies, and Psychology. She is the author of Innocence, Loss, and Recovery in the Art of Joan Didion (1989). She has published articles on psychology and on a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, and Edmund Spenser.

Reviews

?[N]ewly conducted interviews with Naylor make this volume especially important.?-American Literary Scholarship

"ÝN¨ewly conducted interviews with Naylor make this volume especially important."-American Literary Scholarship

"[N]ewly conducted interviews with Naylor make this volume especially important."-American Literary Scholarship