Gloria Naylor

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"This collection of essays treats Gloria Naylor's novels Mama Day and Bailey's Cafe, recognized by scholars and critics as her most significant works. Long understood to be a major African-American woman writer, Gloria Naylor is finally gaining recognition as a contemporary American writer who needs no qualifiers or adjectives before her name. One of the few critical studies of her work, this text represents the work of a group of scholars who are looking seriously and carefully at Naylor, attempting to determine her place, not within an intellectual tradition, but rather within several traditions."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African Americans in literature,  Myth in literature,  Magic in literature,  Technique,  Criticism and interpretation,  African American women in literature,  Women and literature,  History,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century

People: Gloria Naylor

Places: United States

Times: 20th century