A Feminist Reading in Gloria Naylor’s Select Novels
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
Gloria Naylor’s novels are the transcendence of boundaries. Forever challenging the arbitrary limitations that society imposes on the individual, whether racially motivated, gender – driven, or caste – generated, she demanded that her characters question their circumstances in order to change them. Naylor uses several mini-plots that highlight the lives of the individual women.The Women of Brewster Place examines the concept of human survival in all of its manifestations: the strategies human beings adopt to survive, the mistakes made, and the lessons learned. Linden Hills examines the destructive effects on, and the fragmentation of, the black psyche when, at the expense of everything humane, African Americans focus entirely on re-creating a black version of the American dream. Naylor tackles many different issues in Bailey’s Cafe, the theme that consumes much of the work is marginality. In short, Naylor forces us to reconsider these characters only in the context of their individual lives.
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V. Nandhini, Dr. R. Dharani
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