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Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past And Present

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 336
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781567430301
  • Release date
  • 2000