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The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters

Autor Sharon Felton, Michelle Loris
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 sep 1997 – vârsta până la 17 ani
As the author of The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills, Mama Day, and Bailey's Cafe, Gloria Naylor is widely respected as one of the most important contemporary African American women writers. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the critical response to her works. The book is divided into sections devoted to each of Naylor's novels. Within each section, seminal articles and book chapters comment on her writing. Special attention is given to African American and feminist perspectives on her canon. In addition, many of the essays discuss the relationship of Naylor's novels to the works of classical authors such as Chaucer, Dante, and Shakespeare, and to significant modern writers; thus, the volume charts her sources and influence. While some of the essays have appeared previously and are among the most important responses to her writings, the book also includes several original pieces. An exclusive interview with Naylor, an insightful introduction, and a substantial bibliography are special features of this reference work.A balance of new and previously published material provides a thoughtful overview of the reception of her works. A thorough introductory essay discusses Naylor's place in American literature and the themes she treats throughout her novels. A chronology summarizes the principal events in her life and career, and a substantial bibliography lists works for further reading. A special feature is an exclusive interview with Naylor, in which she discusses such topics as the role of the politics of gender in her writings, her treatment of women, the relationship between art and morality, her views on race relations, her thoughts on the future of literature and on her most recent projects, and the manner in which she works and writes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313300264
ISBN-10: 0313300267
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Greenwood
Seria Critical Responses in Arts and Letters

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Series Foreword by Cameron NorthouseChronologyIntroduction by Sharon Felton and Michelle C. LorisThe Women of Brewster PlaceBeyond the Myth of Confrontation: A Comparative Study of African and African-American Female Protagonists by Ebele EkoA 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 JohnsonBlack Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place by Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen SeiterThe Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Motif in The Women of Brewster Place by Maxine L. MontgomeryFrom the Hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's Faith of the Spirit by James Robert SaundersLinden HillsThe View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners by Mary F. SisneyDominion and Proprietorship in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Linden Hills by Nellie BoydNarrative Structure in Linden Hills by Grace E. CollinsThe 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. BergMama Day'The Whole Picture' in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Susan MeisenhelderThe Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Suzanne JuhaszRecovering the Conjure Woman: Texts and Contexts in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Lindsey TuckerReconstructing 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 StorhoffGloria Naylor's Mama Day as Magic Realism by Elizabeth T. HayesBailey's CafeAuthority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Maxine L. MontgomeryGloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe: A Panic Reading of Bailey's Narrative by Angela diPaceRipe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt by Karah StokesThe Dream Defined: Bailey's Cafe and the Reconstruction of American Cultural Identities by William R. NashLiving 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. WoodInterview: The Human Spirit Is a Kick-Ass Thing" by Michelle C. Loris and Sharon FeltonBibliographyIndex