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Title:

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

Publisher:

Associated University Presses,
Associated University Presses,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

200 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Naylor, Gloria--Criticism and interpretation.
Naylor, Gloria--Technique.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature
Magic in literature.
Myth in literature.

Other Authors:

Stave, Shirley A., 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780874137057 (alk. paper)
0874137055 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43836516

LCCN:

00037384

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)