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

Imprint Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 N233Dg 2001    ---  Available
Description 200 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- 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.
Subject Naylor, Gloria -- Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Naylor, Gloria -- Technique.
Magic in literature.
Myth in literature.
Added Author Stave, Shirley A., 1952-
ISBN 0874137055 (alk. paper)

 
    
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