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

Other author Stave, Shirley A., 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2001.
Description200 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Local noteLittle-330124--3051310398831
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00037384
ISBN0874137055 (alk. paper)