The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance

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African-American vernacular, xii, 10–12, 26, 38–39, 41–42, 79. See also blues; gospel Africana mythological and spiritual nexus, 37, 39, 59, 73 Amos n’ Andy, 43 Architectural space, 8–9; basement, 34; bedroom and bath, 18–51; kitchen, 24, 35; living room, 12; stairway, 12, 26, 35 Austen, Jane, 29 Awkward, Michael, 9, 102n6 Bachelard, Gaston, 12 Baker, Jr., Houston A., xiii Bailey’s Café: use of bible in, 64, 66–68, 72; domesticity in, 55–58, 64–66, 70; Eve as semi-divine maternal figure, 59–61, 66; Eve’s boardinghouse as liminal space, 69; use of mirror trope in, 68; Miss Maple as transgender male, 69–70; music in, 53–55, 69, 71 Begg, Ean, The Cult of the Black Virgin, 72 Bell, Bernard, xii Bethune, Mary McLeod, 14 Bhabha, Homi, xiv, xvii, 42; New World Border, 71; Third Space, xvii, xix, 38; unhomely, 44 Bible, 31, 41, 43, 48, 24, 60, 65, 66–68, 71–72, 84–85; Apocalypse, 24; Jezebel, 64; Virgin Birth, xx, 67–68, 72. See also Naylor, Gloria Black Revolution, xviii, 1, 82 Blues, xiii, 2, 9–12, 26–27, 44, 53–55, 94–95. See also African-American vernacular Bluest Eye, The, 7–8. See also Morrison, Toni Border subject, xiv–xv, 77 Brantley, Jenny, 10, 102n7, 102n11 Brer Fox, 26 Brer Rabbit, 26 Brontes, The, 29 Chesnutt, Charles W, The Conjure Woman, 39– 40; The Marrow Tradition, 40 Christol, Helene, 47 Civil Rights Movement, xviii, 1, 14, 82, 99 Cliff, Michelle, 79 Conjure, 42, 45, 46 Costino, Kimberly, 33, 103, 103n6 Creolization, xiv Cultural hybridity, xiv, 42–43 Cultural memory, 27, 38, 48, 53, 76 Davies, Carol Boyce, xiii, xv, 75–76 Davis, Angela, xv Diaspora (African), 18, 40, 47, 51–52, 75, 77 Dickinson, Emily, 29 DuBois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk, xvii Ettinger, Bracha, xv, 101n4 Index 114 Index Fanon, Franz, 51 Farwell, Julie B., 39–40, 104n6 Feminine principle, 24, 33–34, 60 Fowler, Virginia, 7, 25, 28, 34, 45, 104n5 Gospel music, 44. See also AfricanAmerican vernacular Gabbin, Joanne, 18, 102n10 Garvey, Marcus, 31 Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, 23, 102n2; The Signifying Monkey, 39, 49 Giddens, Paula, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, 14 Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan, 21–22 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 29 Gilroy, Paul, xiii–xiv, 43 Giovanni, Nikki, 92 Great (Urban) Migration, xiii, 28, 40 Hamer, Fannie Lou, 14 Hammon, Jupiter, 29 Henderson, Mae Gwendolyn, xviii, 75, 105n2 Hill-Collins, Patricia, xvi, 43 Holiday, Billie, 9, 27 hooks, bell, xiii, xiv–xv, xvi, 44, 61 Hughes, Langston, “Harlem,” 1 Hurston, Zora Neale, xv; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 12, 39, 40; Mules and Men, 41 JanMohamed, Abdul, xiii, xiv, 101n3 Jehovah’s Witnesses, 83–84. See also Naylor, Gloria Jones, Gayl, 40 Jones-Jackson, Patricia, 40 Kidd, Sue Monk, The Secret Life of Bees, 61 Kincaid, Jamaica, 79 Lamothe, Daphne, 39, 44, 49, 104n16 Linden Hills, blues in, 26–27; difference between house and home in, 21–22; domesticity in, 30–32, 34–36; gendered identity in, 23–24; and mirror trope, 24; reversal of Great Migration in, 27–28; and slavery, 30–31; Willa’s ascent in, 35–36 Lorde, Audre, 70 Mama Day, black female slave insurgence in, 41, 46–47; conjure in, 42; and mirror trope, 51; and trickster lore, 39–40, 49, 52; and the bible, 43; Willow Springs as border space, 38 Marshall, Paule, 79 Matus, Jill, 13 Meisenhelder, Susan, 37, 39, 48, 49, 103n2 and 4, 104n14 and 15 Mellon, Joelle, 67 Men of Brewster Place, The, 2, 70, 83, 87, 93, 94, 96 Middle Passage, xiii–xiv, 38–39, 40, 50, 69 Morrison, Toni, xiii, xvi–xvii; The Bluest Eye, 7–8; Tar Baby, 28; A Mercy, 79 Naylor, Gloria: bible as literary influence on, 84–85; Eva McKinney as prototype for Mama Day, 89; grandmother’s Harlem apartment buildings as literary influence on, xv–xvi, 1, 91; discusses the Jehovah’s Witnesses, 83–84; and male fictional characters, 93–95; metaphysical settings in her works, xiv; discusses the Million Man March, 82; and President Barack Obama, 98–99; discusses “Sapphira Wade,” 99; September 11, 2001 and, 115 Index 81–82; women as healers, 87–88; and Shakespeare, 96–97; and the South, xiii, xv–xvi, 75, 91–93; and Third Space, xvii, xix neo briar patch, 52...