Includes bibliographical references (p. 307) and index.
Contents:
(cont) place and Linden hills / Barbara Christian -- Dream, deferral, and closure in The women of Brewster place / Jill L. Matus -- Reading in black and white : space and race in Linden hills / Luke Bouvier -- The woman in the cave / Margaret Homans -- Linden hills : a modern inferno / Catherine C. Ward -- Gothic and intertextual constructions in Linden hills / Keith Sandiford -- Reconstructing history in Linden hills / Teresa Goddu -- "Shakespear's black?" : the role of Shakespeare in Naylor's novels / Peter Erickson -- The ornamentation of old ideas : Naylor's first three novels / James Robert Reviews : The women of Brewster place (1982) / Annie Gottlieb, Dorothy Wickenden -- Linden hills (1985) / Mel Watkins, Sherley Anne Williams -- Mama Day (1988) / Rita Mae Brown, et al. -- Bailey's cafe (1992) / Karen Joy Fowler, et al. -- Essays : Authorial dreams of wholeness : (dis)unity, (literary) parentage, and The women of Brewster place / Michael Awkward -- Reading rape / Laura E. Tanner -- Stealing b(l)ack voices : the myth of the black matriarchy and The women of Brewster place / Celeste Fraser -- Naylor's geography : community, class and patriarchy in The women of Brewster Saunders -- Lead on with light / Helen Fiddyment Levy -- Black sisterhood in Naylor's novels / Larry R. Andrews.
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