Talk:The Women of Brewster Place (novel)

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Bibliography for further reference[edit]

Here is a selected bibliography of secondary sources for this novel --DrX (talk) 20:03, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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, Henry Louis, Jr. and K.A. Appiah, eds. Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993. 37-70.

Bobo, Jacqueline, and Ellen Seiter. "Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place." Screen 32 (Autumn 1991): 286-302. Reprinted in Vision/Revision: Adapting Contemporary American Fiction Women to Film, ed. Barbara Lupack, Ohio: Popular, 1996, 145-57. Also Reprinted in Felton, Sharon. and Michelle C. Loris, eds. The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997. 27-41.

Christian, Barbara. "Naylor's Geography: Community, Class, and Patriarchy in The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills." Reading Black, Reading Feminist. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Meridian/Penguin, 1990. 348-73.

"No More Buried Lives: The Theme of Lesbianism in Audre Lorde's Zami, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo, and Alice Walker's The Color Purple." Black Feminist Criticism. New York: Pergammon Press, 1985. 187-204.

Davis, Rocio G. "Identity in Community in Ethnic Short Story Cycles: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place." Ethnicity and the American Short Story. Ed. William E. Cain and Julia Brown. New York: Garland, 1997. 3-23.
Eko, Ebele. "Beyond the Myth of Confrontation: A Comparative Study of African and African-American Female Protagonists." Ariel 17 (October 1986): 139-52. Reprinted in Felton, Sharon. and Michelle C. Loris, eds. The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997.13-22.

Fraser, Celeste. "Stealing B(l)ack Voices: The Myth of the Black Matriarchy and The Women of Brewster Place." Critical Matrix 5 (Fall/Winter 1989). Reprinted in Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and K.A. Appiah, eds. Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993. 90-105.
Glickman, Marlaine. "Black Like Who?" Film Comment 25.3 (May/June 1989): 75-76. Analysis of Oprah Winfrey's adaptation of The Women of Brewster Place for television.

Kelly, Lori Duin. "The Dream Sequence in The Women of Brewster Place." Notes on Contemporary Literature 21 (September 1991): 8-10.

Matus, Jill L. "Dream, Deferral, and Closure in The Women of Brewster Place." Black American Literature Forum 24 (1990): 49-64. Reprinted in Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and K.A. Appiah, eds. Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993. 126-39.

Meisendhelder, Susan. "'Eating Cane' in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Zora Neale Hurston's 'Sweat."' Notes on Contemporary Literature 23.2 (March 1993): 5-7.

Montgomery, Maxine L. "The Fathomless Dream: Gloria Naylor's Use of the Descent Motif in The Women of Brewster Place." CLA Journal 36.1 (1992): 1-11. Reprinted in Felton, Sharon. and Michelle C. Loris, eds. The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997. 42-8.

The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.

Palumbo, Kathryn. "The Uses of Female Imagery in Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place." Notes on Contemporary Literature 15.3 (May 1985): 6-7.

Saunders, James Robert. "The Ornamentation of Old Ideas: Gloria Naylor's First Three Novels." Hollins Critic 27.2 (April 1990): 1-11. Reprinted in Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and K.A. Appiah, eds. Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993. 249-62.

Stanford, Ann Folwell. "Mechanism of Disease: African-American Women Writers, Social Pathologies, and the Limits of Medicine." NWSA Journal 6.1 (Spring 1994): 24-47.
Tanner, Laura E. "Reading Rape: Sanctuary and The Women of Brewster Place." American Literature 62 (1990): 559-82. Reprinted in Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and K.A. Appiah, eds. Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993. 71-89.

Wardi, Anissa J. "The Scent of a Sugarcane: Recalling Cane in The Women of Brewster Place." College Language Association Journal 42.4 (1999): 483-507.
Wells, Linda, Sandra E. Bowen, and Suzanne Stutman. "'What Shall I Give My Children?': The Role of Mentor in Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow." Explorations in Ethnic Studies 13.2 (1990): 41-60.

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