Description

Gloria Naylor’s works like, The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988), Bailey’s Cafe (1992) become novels in which the reader finds a kind of a metafictive female Adam, the Afro-American fictional female, as an individual who evolves her identity as an identity of womanhood imbued with an alazonic essence. Naylor’s novelistic women protagonists become rebels as well as rebel-victims in their process of liberation from male hegemonistic-appropriations.
Gloria Naylor has been labelled as a writer whose fictions get narrated as difficult, utterly original psychic, sociological journeys to the interior of human consciousness. What the reader witnesses in the novels, included in this study, are terrifying situations, born out of gendered-disequilibrium as a consequence of male-induced oppression and discrimination. The Black women personages, as the central novelistic protagonists reconstruct their lives and realize their dreams, by undertaking a picaresque type movement of freedom. This journey of freedom also involves the transition of identity, enslavement to emancipation, from eironic suppression to alazonic dignity. The resurgence of identity, rootedness and belongingness, constitutes the final vindication of the coloured feminine sensibility as applying to Naylor’s women characters. This book makes an attempt to analyze the narrative and thematic contours, permutations and combinations which form the main contributive factors in the reconstruction of the female Black Self in an ethnic context.

About The Author

Dr. Jyoti Dutt is at present Assistant Professor in Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir UT. She is specialized in English Literature with teaching experience of 23 years at College level . She is an aspiring author with a keen interest in African American literature. Her literary interests focus on themes such as racial identity, equality, freedom, cultural heritage, and social justice. Through her writing, she is to understand and express the experiences, struggles, and achievements of African Americans. She admires the works of writers such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes, whose writings have made significant contributions to literature. Her goal is to explore the power of literature in challenging discrimination, promoting equality, and giving voice to underrepresented communities.