Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1567430171
ISBN 13
9781567430172
Category
Novel Criticism
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
Pages
322
Description
In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies. And, while she is a citizen of the republic of literature in the broadest and most cosmopolitan sense, her work suggest formal linkage to that of Ann Petry, James Baldwin, and, more recently, Toni Morrison.-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - from Amzon
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