Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Book Overview

In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies. And, while she is a citizen of the republic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567430171
• ISBN13: 9781567430172
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Amistad Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"