The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance

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Notes Introduction 1. Angels Carabi, “An Interview with Gloria Naylor,” Conversations with Gloria Naylor, ed. Maxine Lavon Montgomery (Jackson: UP of Mississippi , 2004), 114, 118–19. 2. See the personal interview, “Opening Up the Place Called Home: A Conversation with Gloria Naylor,” May 3, 2007, included in the appendix. Subsequent references to this interview are included parenthetically in the text; Gloria Naylor, “Finding Our Voice,” Essence 26 (May 1995): 193; Donna Perry, “Gloria Naylor,” Conversations with Gloria Naylor, ed. Maxine Lavon Montgomery (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2004), 76–104; Carabi 77 and 111; Willard Pate, “Do You Think of Yourself as a Woman Writer?” Furman Studies 34 (December 1988): 2–13; and untitled interview in Rebecca Carroll, ed., I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers (New York: Crown, 1994), 16. 3. Abdul R. JanMohamed, “Worldliness—Without World, Homelessness as Home: Toward a Definition of the Specular Border Intellectual ,” Edward Said: A Critical Reader, ed. Michael Sprinkler (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992). 4. Bracha Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2006), 41–89. 5. William Goldstein, “A Talk with Gloria Naylor,” Conversations with Gloria Naylor, ed. Maxine Lavon Montgomery (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2004), 6. 6. Victor Turner, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1974), 13–14. Chapter 1 1. Goldstein; Kay Bonetti, “An Interview with Gloria Naylor,” Conversations with Gloria Naylor, ed. Maxine Lavon Montgomery (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2004); and Carabi 5, 54, 119. 102 Notes 2. Gloria Naylor, “An Interview,” online interview, Barnes and Noble, May 12, 1998 . 3. Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place (New York: Viking, 1982), 25. Subsequent references to this work are included parenthetically in the text. 4. Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison, “A Conversation,” Conversations with Gloria Naylor, ed. Maxine Lavon Montgomery (Jackson: UP of Mississippi , 2004), 10–12. 5. Carabi 115. 6. See Michael Awkward, “Authorial Dreams of Wholeness: (Dis) Unity, (Literary) Parentage, and The Women of Brewster Place,” Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, ed. Henry L. Gates Jr. and K. A. Appiah (New York: Amistad, 1993), 37–70. 7. Jenny Brantley, “Women’s Screams and Women’s Laughter: Connections and Creations in Gloria Naylor’s Novels,” Gloria Naylor’s Early Novels, ed. Margot Anne Kelley (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999), 21–38. 8. Jill L. Matus, “Dream, Deferral, and Closure in The Women of Brewster Place,” Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, ed. Henry L. Gates Jr. and K. A. Appiah (New York: Amistad, 1993), 136. 9. Perry 81–82. 10. Joanne Gabbin, “A Laying on of Hands: Black Women Writers Exploring the Roots of Their Folk and Cultural Tradition,” Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance, ed. Joanne Braxton and Andree Nicola McLaughlin (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1990), 246–62. 11. Brantley 21–38. Chapter 2 1. Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1985), 17. Subsequent references to this work are included parenthetically in the text. 2. Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Significant Others,” Contemporary Literature 29 (1988): 606–23. 103 Notes 3. Naomi Epel, “Gloria Naylor,” Writers Dreaming (New York: Carol Southern, 1993), 163. 4. Perry 91. 5. Bonetti 47. 6. Kimberly Costino, “Weapons Against Women: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Capitalism in Linden Hills,” Gloria Naylor’s Early Novels, ed. Margot Anne Kelley (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999), 39–54. 7. Perry 90. 8. Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Henderson, “Gloria Naylor,” Conversations with Gloria Naylor, ed. Maxine Lavon Montgomery (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2004), 71. 9. Naylor and Morrison 31–32; and Perry 90. 10. See Margaret Homans, “The Woman in the Cave,” Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, ed. Henry L. Gates Jr. and K. A. Appiah (New York: Amistad, 1993), 152–81; and Teresa Goddu, “Reconstructing History in Linden Hills,” Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, ed. Henry L. Gates Jr. and K. A. Appiah (New York: Amistad, 1993), 215–30. Chapter 3 1. Dorothy Perry Thompson, “Africana Womanist Revision in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day,” Gloria Naylor’s Early Novels, ed. Margot Anne Kelley (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999), 90. 2. Susan Meisenhelder, “False Gods and Black Goddesses in Naylor’s Mama Day and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Callaloo 23.4 (2000): 1440–48. 3. Gloria Naylor, Mama Day (New York: Random, 1989), 3. Subsequent references to this work are included parenthetically...