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Callaloo 23.4 (2000) 1497-1512



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Gloria Naylor:
A Selected Bibliography

Tracy Butts


Primary Works (A Chronological Listing)

Novels

The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories. New York: Viking, 1982. Paperback reprint, New York: Penguin, 1983.

Linden Hills. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Paperback reprint, New York: Penguin, 1986.

Mama Day. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. Paperback reprint, New York: Vintage, 1989.

Bailey's Café. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanich, 1992. Paperback reprint, New York: Vintage/Random House, 1993.

The Men of Brewster Place. New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Articles, Essays, & Notes

"A Life on Beekman Place." Essence 9 (March 1979): 84-96.

"When Mama Comes to Call." Essence 13 (August 1982): 78-81.

"A Message to Winston: To Black Men Who Are Gay." Essence 13 (November 1982): 79-85.

"Famous First Words." New York Times Book Review (June 2, 1985): 52.

"Reflections." Centennial. Ed. Michael Rosenthal. New York: Pindar Press, 1986. 68-71.

[Untitled "Hers" column]. New York Times (February 20, 1986): C2.

"Power: Rx for Good Health." Ms. (May 1986): 58-60.

"The Myth of the Matriarch." Life 11 (Spring 1988): 65.

"Love and Sex in the Afro-American Novel." Yale Review 78 (1988): 19-31.

"Sexual Ease." Essence (December 1988): 108.

"African-American or Black: What's in a Name?" Ebony (July 1989): 80. [End Page 1497]

"Graceful Passages." Essence (May 1990): 134.

Staging a Novel: Bailey's Cafe. New York City, Mitzi Newhouse Theater. 27 October 1992.

[Untitled]. Writers Dreaming. Ed. Naomi Epel. New York: Carol Southern Books, 1993. 167-77.

"Of Fathers and Sons: A Daughter Remembers." In Their Footsteps. Ed. Henry Chase. New York: Henry Holt, 1994. 5-7.

"Telling Tales and Mississippi Sunsets." Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminisces, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions. Ed. Nikki Giovanni. New York: Henry Holt, 1994. 59-62.

[Untitled]. I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voices and Vision of Black Women Writers. Ed. Rebecca Carroll. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1994. 160-65.

Interviews & Conversations

An Evening with Gloria Naylor. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center, 1991).

Bellinelli, Mateo, dir. A Conversation with Gloria Naylor (videotape). Produced by RTSJ-Swiss Television. California Newsreel, 1992.

Bonnetti, Kay. "An Interview with Gloria Naylor" (audiotape). New York: American Prose Library, 1988.

Carabis, Angel. [Interview with Gloria Naylor]. Belles Lettres 7 (Spring 1992): 36-42.

Fowler, Virginia. Appendix. "A Conversation with Gloria Naylor." Gloria Naylor: In Search of Sanctuary. Twayne United States Authors Series, #660. New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996. 143-57.

"Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison: A Conversation." Southern Review 21 (1985): 567-93.

Loris, Michelle C., and Sharon Felton. "The Human Spirit is a Kick-Ass Thing." The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor. Ed. Sharon Felton and Michelle C. Loris. Connecticut: Greenwood, 1997. 253-64.

Pearlman, Mickey. "An Interview with Gloria Naylor." High Plains Literary Review 5 (Spring 1990): 98-107.

Perry, Donna. "Gloria Naylor." Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993. 217-44.

_____, and Katherine Usher Henderson. "Gloria Naylor." A Voice of One's Own: Conversations with American's Writing Women. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 27-34.

Rowell, Charles. "An Interview with Gloria Naylor." Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 20.1 (Winter 1997): 179-92. [End Page 1498]

Other

"Hidden Wealth?" First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors. Ed. Paul Mandelbaum. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1993. 364.

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present. Ed. Gloria Naylor. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.

Secondary Sources

Andrews, Larry. "Black Sisterhood in Gloria Naylor's Novels." CLA Journal 33.1 (1989): 1-25.
     Analysis of Naylor's progression toward a "more complex vision of sisterhood" from her first novel to her third.

Awkward, Michael. "Authorial Dreams of Wholeness: (Dis)Unity, (Literary) Parentage, and The Women of Brewster Place." Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. 97-134. Reprinted in Gates and Appiah, Gloria Naylor, 37-70.
     Reads The Women of Brewster Place as a revision of Jean Toomer...

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