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Gloria Naylor: A Critical Companion  
Author: Charles E. Wilson
ISBN: 031331330X
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
In each of her five novels, Gloria Naylor invites the reader to join her characters in their journeys to move beyond established boundaries and embrace an increasingly diverse society. With lucid analyses of each work, this Critical Companion helps readers comprehend how Naylor successfully links the trials of her African American characters to the struggles of human beings at variance with seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Insights into Naylor's own struggles and successes are provided in a richly drawn biographical chapter, which incorporates fresh materials from a recent interview conducted for this book. Naylor's place within the larger framework of the African American narrative traditions is considered as well.

About the Author
CHARLES E. WILSON, Jr.,R is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches African American Literature, Southern Literature, and American Literature.




Gloria Naylor: A Critical Companion

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"In each of her five novels, Gloria Naylor invites the reader to join her characters in their journeys to move beyond established boundaries and embrace an increasingly diverse society. With analyses of each work, this Critical Companion helps readers comprehend how Naylor successfully links the trials of her African American characters to the struggles of human beings at variance with seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Insights into Naylor's own struggles and successes are provided in a biographical chapter, which incorporates fresh materials from a recent interview conducted for this book. Naylor's place within the larger framework of the African American narrative traditions is also considered in detail."--BOOK JACKET.

SYNOPSIS

Considers Naylor's literary contributions within the context of the African American narrative traditions using insightful analysis of her five novels.

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

After reviewing the life and literary heritage of African- American writer Naylor (b. 1950), Wilson (English, Old Dominion U.) examines her two Brewster Place novels, , , and . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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