Gloria Naylor : strategy and technique, magic and myth / edited by Shirley A. Stave.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stave, Shirley A., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naylor, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.

Naylor, Gloria.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Technique.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Naylor, Gloria--Technique.

Magic in literature.

Myth in literature.

Physical Description:

200 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction / Shirley A. Stave.

Hope from the ashes : Naylor, Faulkner, and the signfyin(g) tradition / Mark Simpson-Vos.

Divergent Paths to the South :echoes of Cane in Mama Day / Anissa J. Wardi.

Serving the second sun : the men in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / R. Mark Hall.

Re-writing sacred texts : Gloria Naylor's revisionary theology / Shirley A. Stave.

The Maternal Aesthetic of Mama Day / Julie Tharp.

Talking in metaphors : language, knowledge, and "Signifyin(g)" in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Carol Howard.

This mumbo-jumbo : magic and vocabularies in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Johnny Lorenz.

Return to sender : correspondence(s) in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Kerry Regan.

Toward a literacy of empathy : inhabiting Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe / Carol Bender and Roseanne Hoefel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0874137055

OCLC:

43836516