Gloria Naylor : strategy and technique, magic and myth

Stave, Shirley A., 1952- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0874137055 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: 200 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Shirley A. Stave -- Hope from the ashes : Naylor, Faulkner, and the signifyin(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.