The author Gloria Naylor (born 1950) wrote novels that emphasized the strengths of women, especially African American women, and the effects on the lives of people of racism, sexism, and the drive for...
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"I . . . wanted to be a writer from the time I was twelve or thirteen years old. But whether that was going to be a probable goal for me didn't come up as an issue for me until my college years," nove...
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As author of The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor has assured her place in a body of literature which she has revered since childhood, a reverence owed directly to her mother. "My parents were f...
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The emergence of Gloria Naylor on the American literary scene was sudden--The Women of Brewster Place (1982) was her first book--and intense, as Naylor added her voice to those of the few black women ...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
A remarkable first novel from a gifted black writer, ["The Women of Brewster Place"] marks Gloria Naylor's talent as one to watch. In an unide...
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Critical Essay by William Bradley Hooper
[In The Women of Brewster Place] Naylor focuses on seven black women, residents of Brewster Place. She is concerned with the distance between their dreams and...
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Critical Essay by Deirdre Donahue
Gloria Naylor centers her radiant first novel, "The Women of Brewster Place," not in a specific city but in the chipped concrete and stinking trash can...
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Critical Essay by Annie Gottlieb
Gloria Naylor's "The Women of Brewster Place" is set in one of those vintage urban-housing developments that black people (who are, in truth, &#x...
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Critical Essay by Dorothy Wickenden
It won't come as a surprise to readers of contemporary fiction by black women that Gloria Naylor has few kind words to waste on members of the other sex. Ye...
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Crime and Punishment
The Men of South Minneapolis
"They were hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased, these women of Brewster Place" (Naylor 5). This is how Gloria Naylor d...
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Teaching The Women of Brewster Place
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The Women of Brewster Place Lesson Plans contain 117 pages of teaching material, including:
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor
Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
The Men of South Minneapolis
