Gloria Naylor

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In this program, one of the most astute observers of contemporary African American life discusses the value and difficulty of maintaining an African American identity in a world dominated by whites, urging viewers "to celebrate voraciously that which is yours. The breadth of her vision-from rural South to urban ghetto to the black middle class-is revealed as she reads from The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills, and Mama Day, in the last of these calling upon an urbanized boy to look to his African American past for strength
Gloria Naylor: African-American Novelist (3:23)
Traditional Female Roles and Feminism (2:50)
Theme in Gloria Naylor's Novels (3:01)
Childhood Influences on a Writer (4:17)
African-American Language (1:42)
Novelist Turns Screenwriter (2:43)

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