SHARON FELTON is a specialist in modern and contemporary American and British literature and women's writing. She has been an Assistant Professor of English at the Waterbury campus of the University of Connecticut and at Austin Peay State University. She is the editor of The Critical Response to Joan Didion (Greenwood, 1993) and has published articles and reviews in The Hollins Critic, Connecticut Review, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in Short Fiction, and other journals.MICHELLE C. LORIS is a Professor at Sacred Heart University, where she teaches American Literature, Women's Studies, and Psychology. She is the author of Innocence, Loss, and Recovery in the Art of Joan Didion (1989). She has published articles on psychology and on a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, and Edmund Spenser.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Chronology Introduction by Sharon Felton and Michelle C. Loris The Women of Brewster Place Beyond the Myth of Confrontation: A Comparative Study of African and African-American Female Protagonists by Ebele Eko A Womanist Way of Speaking: An Analysis of Language in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place by Cheryl Lynn Johnson Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place by Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter The Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Motif in The Women of Brewster Place by Maxine L. Montgomery From the Hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's Faith of the Spirit by James Robert Saunders Linden Hills The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners by Mary F. Sisney Dominion and Proprietorship in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Linden Hills by Nellie Boyd Narrative Structure in Linden Hills by Grace E. Collins The Confluence of Food and Identity in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills: "What We Eat Is Who We Is" by Charles P. Toombs 'giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts': Gloria Naylor and Walt Whitman by Christine G. Berg Mama Day 'The Whole Picture' in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Susan Meisenhelder The Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Suzanne Juhasz Recovering the Conjure Woman: Texts and Contexts in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Lindsey Tucker Reconstructing American History: Land and Genealogy in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Helene Christol 'The Only Voice is Your Own': Gloria Naylor's Revision of The Tempest by Gary Storhoff Gloria Naylor's Mama Day as Magic Realism by Elizabeth T. Hayes Bailey's Cafe Authority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Maxine L. Montgomery Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe: A Panic Reading of Bailey's Narrative by Angela diPace Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt by Karah Stokes The Dream Defined: Bailey's Cafe and the Reconstruction of American Cultural Identities by William R. Nash Living with the Abyss in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Philip Page 'Two Warring Ideals in One Dark Body': Universalism and Nationalism in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Rebecca S. Wood Interview: The Human Spirit Is a Kick-Ass Thing" by Michelle C. Loris and Sharon Felton Bibliography Index

SHARON FELTON is a specialist in modern and contemporary American and British literature and women's writing. She has been an Assistant Professor of English at the Waterbury campus of the University of Connecticut and at Austin Peay State University. She is the editor of The Critical Response to Joan Didion (Greenwood, 1993) and has published articles and reviews in The Hollins Critic, Connecticut Review, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in Short Fiction, and other journals.MICHELLE C. LORIS is a Professor at Sacred Heart University, where she teaches American Literature, Women's Studies, and Psychology. She is the author of Innocence, Loss, and Recovery in the Art of Joan Didion (1989). She has published articles on psychology and on a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, and Edmund Spenser.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Chronology Introduction by Sharon Felton and Michelle C. Loris The Women of Brewster Place Beyond the Myth of Confrontation: A Comparative Study of African and African-American Female Protagonists by Ebele Eko A Womanist Way of Speaking: An Analysis of Language in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place by Cheryl Lynn Johnson Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place by Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter The Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Motif in The Women of Brewster Place by Maxine L. Montgomery From the Hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's Faith of the Spirit by James Robert Saunders Linden Hills The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners by Mary F. Sisney Dominion and Proprietorship in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Linden Hills by Nellie Boyd Narrative Structure in Linden Hills by Grace E. Collins The Confluence of Food and Identity in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills: "What We Eat Is Who We Is" by Charles P. Toombs 'giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts': Gloria Naylor and Walt Whitman by Christine G. Berg Mama Day 'The Whole Picture' in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Susan Meisenhelder The Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Suzanne Juhasz Recovering the Conjure Woman: Texts and Contexts in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Lindsey Tucker Reconstructing American History: Land and Genealogy in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Helene Christol 'The Only Voice is Your Own': Gloria Naylor's Revision of The Tempest by Gary Storhoff Gloria Naylor's Mama Day as Magic Realism by Elizabeth T. Hayes Bailey's Cafe Authority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Maxine L. Montgomery Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe: A Panic Reading of Bailey's Narrative by Angela diPace Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt by Karah Stokes The Dream Defined: Bailey's Cafe and the Reconstruction of American Cultural Identities by William R. Nash Living with the Abyss in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Philip Page 'Two Warring Ideals in One Dark Body': Universalism and Nationalism in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Rebecca S. Wood Interview: The Human Spirit Is a Kick-Ass Thing" by Michelle C. Loris and Sharon Felton Bibliography Index

SHARON FELTON is a specialist in modern and contemporary American and British literature and women's writing. She has been an Assistant Professor of English at the Waterbury campus of the University of Connecticut and at Austin Peay State University. She is the editor of The Critical Response to Joan Didion (Greenwood, 1993) and has published articles and reviews in The Hollins Critic, Connecticut Review, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in Short Fiction, and other journals.MICHELLE C. LORIS is a Professor at Sacred Heart University, where she teaches American Literature, Women's Studies, and Psychology. She is the author of Innocence, Loss, and Recovery in the Art of Joan Didion (1989). She has published articles on psychology and on a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, and Edmund Spenser.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Chronology Introduction by Sharon Felton and Michelle C. Loris The Women of Brewster Place Beyond the Myth of Confrontation: A Comparative Study of African and African-American Female Protagonists by Ebele Eko A Womanist Way of Speaking: An Analysis of Language in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place by Cheryl Lynn Johnson Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place by Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter The Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Motif in The Women of Brewster Place by Maxine L. Montgomery From the Hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's Faith of the Spirit by James Robert Saunders Linden Hills The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners by Mary F. Sisney Dominion and Proprietorship in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Linden Hills by Nellie Boyd Narrative Structure in Linden Hills by Grace E. Collins The Confluence of Food and Identity in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills: "What We Eat Is Who We Is" by Charles P. Toombs 'giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts': Gloria Naylor and Walt Whitman by Christine G. Berg Mama Day 'The Whole Picture' in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Susan Meisenhelder The Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Suzanne Juhasz Recovering the Conjure Woman: Texts and Contexts in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Lindsey Tucker Reconstructing American History: Land and Genealogy in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day by Helene Christol 'The Only Voice is Your Own': Gloria Naylor's Revision of The Tempest by Gary Storhoff Gloria Naylor's Mama Day as Magic Realism by Elizabeth T. Hayes Bailey's Cafe Authority, Multivocality, and the New World Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Maxine L. Montgomery Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe: A Panic Reading of Bailey's Narrative by Angela diPace Ripe Plums and Pine Trees: Using Metaphor to Tell Stories of Violence in the Works of Gloria Naylor and Charles Chesnutt by Karah Stokes The Dream Defined: Bailey's Cafe and the Reconstruction of American Cultural Identities by William R. Nash Living with the Abyss in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Philip Page 'Two Warring Ideals in One Dark Body': Universalism and Nationalism in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe by Rebecca S. Wood Interview: The Human Spirit Is a Kick-Ass Thing" by Michelle C. Loris and Sharon Felton Bibliography Index