Understanding Gloria Naylor by Whitt, Margaret Earley, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Gloria Naylor -- The women of Brewster Place -- Linden Hills -- Mama Day -- Bailey's café.…”


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The Berenstain Bears' stories to share with Mama Bear by Berenstain, Stan, 1923-2005

Table of Contents: “…The Berenstain Bears Mama's New Job -- The Berenstain Bears and the bad habit -- The Berenstain Bears and the mama's day surprise.…”


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Gloria Naylor : a critical companion by Wilson, Charles E., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The life of Gloria Naylor -- Literary heritage -- The Women of Brewster Place (1982) -- Linden Hills (1985) -- Mama Day (1988) -- Bailey's Cafe (1992) -- The Men of Brewster Place (1998).…”


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The fiction of Gloria Naylor : houses and spaces of resistance by Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Navigating a blues landscape : The women of Brewster Place -- Burning down the master's house : Linden Hills -- Finding peace in the middle : Mama Day -- Mapping the new world order : Bailey's Café.…”


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Gloria Naylor's early novels

Table of Contents: “…Costino -- Good housekeeping: domestic ritual in Gloria Naylor's fiction / Maxine Lavon Montgomery -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama day / Amy K. Levin -- Africana womanist revision in Gloria Naylor's Mama day and Bailey's cafe / Dorothy Perry Thompson -- "Into the midst of nothing": Gloria Naylor and the Différance / Philip Page -- Framing the possibilities: collective agency and the novels of Gloria Naylor / Margot Anne Kelley.…”


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Smart mama's green guide : simple steps to reduce your child's toxic chemical exposure by Taggart, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Toxic chemicals permeate our modern lives -- Kids: toxic chemical exposures and risks -- This is the house that Jack built: whole house issues -- Getting the lead out -- Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake: the kitchen -- You are what you eat: food and beverages -- Rock-a-bye baby: baby's nursery -- Busy baby, busy mom: the playroom and baby gear -- Rub-a-dub-dub: the bathroom -- Cleaniness and the pursuit of perfection -- The ants go marching: pesticides -- Appendix A. Smart mama's day-care questions ; B. Common acronyms and abbreviations.…”


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Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora by Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.…”


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Libertad 548 by Pitbull (Rapper)

Table of Contents: “…Winning (featuring Yomil y el Dany) -- No lo trates (featuring Daddy Yankee and Natti Natasha) -- 3 to tango -- Moviendolo (featuring Wisin & Yandel) -- Happy mama day (featuring Chacal, Sky Monroe) -- Get ready (featuring Blake Shelton) -- Cinco de Mayo(featuring Chesca) -- Mala (featuring Becky G) -- Mueve la cintura (featuring Tito El Bambino, Guru Randhawa) -- Me quedare contigo (featuring Ne-Yo, Lenier, El Micha) -- Se la ví (featuring IAmChino, Papayo) -- Tell me again (featuring Ludacris, PrinceRoyce) -- No se lleva nada (featuring El Micha).…”


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Supernatural forces : belief, difference, and power in contemporary works by ethnic women by Winsbro, Bonnie C.

Table of Contents: “…Belief, ethnicity, and self-definition -- A witch and her curse : external definition and uncrossable boundaries in Lee Smith's Oral history -- Predator, scavenger, and trickster-transformer : survival and the visionary experience in Louise Erdrich's Tracks -- Calling Tayo back, unraveling coyote's skin : individuation in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Modern rationality and the supernatural : bridging two worlds in Gloria Naylor's Mama day -- The ghost as demon and savior : confrontation with the past in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Warring with ghosts : power through individuation in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior.…”


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Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity by Grant, Nathan, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : modernism and the masculinist impulse -- Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist -- Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie -- Hurston's masculinist critique of the South -- Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature -- Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story -- When and where we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day.…”


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American gothic literature : a thematic study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead by Anolik, Ruth Bienstock, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: power and possession in American gothic literature -- The American woman: still possessed -- A new possession: slavery and beyond -- Return of the dead: the rebirth of the dispossessed Native American -- Dispossessed possessor: the displaced patriarch -- Masterless: the anxieties of freedom -- Return of the master: the new patriarch -- Textual (dis)possessions: Hannah crafts a textual labyrinth -- Intertextual voices in Gloria Naylor's Mama day: Shakespeare, the Bible and the dispossession of the reader -- Among women: convergences and divergences in gothic space -- Conclusion: toward a fourth century of American gothic.…”


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The wayward preacher in the literature of African American women by Saunders, James Robert, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The attractive trap : Helga Crane's journey to Pleasant Green (Nella Larsen's Quicksand) -- John Pearson's malady : an incurable weakness for women (Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's gourd vine) -- Father Peace : obstructing the quest for a self (Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones) -- From the hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's faith of the spirit (Gloria Naylor's The women of Brewster Place) -- A missing brother : the ultimate inadequacy of the Reverend Jasper (Terry McMillan's Mama).…”


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Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition by Wall, Cheryl A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Reconstructing lineage, revising tradition in Song of Solomon and Zami -- On the line to Dahomey : charting Generations -- Recollections of kin : Beloved and The black book -- Trouble in mind : blues and history in Corregidora -- Writing beyond the blues : The color purple -- Extending the line : from Sula to Mama day -- Bare bones and silken threads : lineage and literary tradition in Praisesong for the widow -- In search of our mothers' gardens and our fathers' (real) estate : Alice Walker, essayist -- Epilogue : moving on down the line ...…”


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Our mothers, our powers, our texts : manifestations of Àjé in Africana literature by Washington, Teresa N., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Àjé in Yorubaland -- Àjé across the continent and in the Ìtànkálé -- Word becoming flesh and text in Gloria Naylor's 'Mama Day' and T. Obinkaram Echewa's 'I saw the sky catch fire' -- Initiations into the self, the conjured space of creation, and prophetic utterance in Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Anowa' and Ntozake Shange's 'Sassafrass, cypress & indigo' -- Un/complementary complements : gender, power, and Àjé -- The relativity of negativity -- The womb of life is a wicked bag : cycles of power, passion, and pain in the mother-daughter Àjé relationship -- Twinning across the ocean : the neo-political Àjé of Ben Okri's Madame Koto and Mary Monroe's Mama Ruby.…”


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Reading from the heart : women, literature, and the search for true love by Juhasz, Suzanne, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The Magic Circle: Fictions of the Good Mother: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day -- 5. Coming Out in Lesbian Romance Fiction: Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah and Valerie Taylor's Prism -- Epilogue. …”


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The tribe of Pyn : literary generations in the postmodern period by Cowart, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Caliban -- Colonized Tongue, Colonized Pen: Heritage and Deracination in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" -- Braid of Blood: Michael Dorris's A Yellow Raft in Blue Water -- Matriarchal Mythopoesis: Gloria Naylor's Mama Day -- The Jeffersonian Vision in Steve Erickson's Arc d'X -- Passionate Pathography: Narrative as Pharmakon in Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul -- Anger, Anguish, and Art: Chuck Palahniuk's Choke -- The Aim Was Song: Ann Patchett's Bel Canto -- The Sorrows of Young Icarus: Mark Z. …”


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Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction by Byerman, Keith Eldon, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…History, culture, discourse : America's racial formation -- Burying the dead : the pain of memory in Beloved -- Bearing witness : the recent fiction of Ernest Gaines -- Troubling the water : subversive women's voices in Dessa Rose and Mama Day -- A short history of desire : Jazz and Bailey's Cafe -- The color of desire : folk history in the fiction of Raymond Andrews -- Postmodern slavery and the transcendence of desire : the novels of Charles Johnson -- Family secrets : reinventions of history in The Chaneysville incident -- Family troubles : history as subversion in Two wings to veil my face and Divine days -- Lost generations : John Edgar Wideman's Homewood narratives -- Apocalyptic visions and false prophets : the end(s) of history in Wideman, Johnson, and Morrison.…”


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Home matters : longing and belonging, nostalgia and mourning in women's fiction by Rubenstein, Roberta, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Yearning and nostalgia: Fiction and autobiographical writings of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing -- Home is (Mother) Earth: Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver -- Home/lands and contested motherhood: The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver -- Inverted narrative as the path/past home: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez -- Home/sickness and the five stages of grief: Ladder of Years, Anne Tyler -- Hom(e)age to the ancestors: Praisesong for the Widow, Paule Marshall -- Haunted longing and the presence of absence: Jazz, Toni Morrison -- Memory, mourning, and maternal triangulations: Mama Day, Gloria Naylor -- Amazing Grace and the paradox of paradise: Paradise, Toni Morrison -- Fixing the past, re-placing nostalgia.…”


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Shakespeare and appropriation

Table of Contents: “…Singh -- Remembering King Lear in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres / Caroline Cakebread -- Signifyin' on The tempest in Gloria Naylor's Mama day / James R. Andreas, Sr. -- Accommodating the virago : nineteenth-century representations of Lady Macbeth / Georgianna Ziegler -- The Shakespeareanization of Robert Browning / Robert Sawyer -- The displaced body of desire : sexuality in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet / Lisa S. …”


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Alice Walker

Table of Contents: “…Byrd -- Meridian and We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For : Alice Walker's Evolving Vision of the Spiritual Warrior / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Looking for God : Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Paula C. Barnes -- Walker's Womanist Agenda / Brenda J. …”