The named and the nameless: Morrison's 124 and Naylor's" the other place" as semiotic chorae

ET Hayes - African American Review, 2004 - JSTOR
N aming is an act of creation. The named-whether person, place, or object--is identified or
marked by the namer as distinctive, unique, the occupant of a discrete space in the universe …

[图书][B] Magical Feminism in the Americas: Resisting Female Marginalisation and Oppression through Magic

AS Abdullah - 2025 - books.google.com
The book aims to show the way magical feminism resists female marginalisation and
oppression in the Americas. Dealing with multiple victimisation of women in the Americas …

[PDF][PDF] Motherhood and Sisterhood in Gloria Naylor's Novels

L Procházková - MA hesis. Masaryk University, 2012 - is.muni.cz
This thesis analyses motherhood and sisterhood in Gloria Naylor's novels, namely in The
Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988) and Bailey's Café …

Narrative, Itineraries, and the Negotiation of “Domestic” Space in Cherie Jones's The Burning Bush Women

A Armstrong - Journal of the Short Story in English. Les …, 2015 - journals.openedition.org
1 In his study of “spatial stories” in The Practice of Everyday Life (1984), Michel de Certeau,
in his association of stories with the Greek term for mass transportation—metaphorai …

[图书][B] Spirit matter (s): Post-dualistic representations of spirituality in fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison, and Gloria Naylor

LJ Vassiliou - 2002 - search.proquest.com
This study examines how spirituality is presented in The Moviegoer, Song of Solomon, and
Mama Day. In these works, spirituality is a need for connection among humans in this world …

[图书][B] The spirit of the ancestors: New world Afrikan matriarchy in three novels by Afro-feminist writers

SD Mitchell - 2006 - search.proquest.com
This project explores the cutting-edge literary theory of spirit discourse in three novels by
Afro-feminist writers---Segu by Maryse Conde, Beloved by Toni Morrison, and Mama Day by …

[图书][B] Far from “everybody's everything”: Literary tricksters in African American and Chinese American fiction

CS Anderson - 2000 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines trickster sensibilities and behavior as models for racial strategies
in contemporary novels by African American and Chinese American authors. While many …

[PDF][PDF] Out of the Ever After, and Other Stories

C Amadori-Segree - 2008 - fau.digital.flvc.org
OUT OF THE EVER AFTER AND OTHER STORIES by Claudia AmadoriSegree Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of The Page 1 OUT OF THE EVER AFTER AND OTHER STORIES by …

[图书][B] From Sinners to Saints and Back Again: Mother Figures in Selected Novels by Contemporary African-American Women

KB Hunsberger - 2007 - library-archives.canada.ca
My thesis examines the role and purpose of the" Mama" figure in selected works of fiction by
contemporary African-American women writers. The" Mama" figure originates in African …

[图书][B] Dialogic discourse in terms of nature, race, and gender in fictions by William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Gloria Naylor

KS Chang - 2002 - search.proquest.com
This study examines the dynamics of the self-other relationship in Bakhtinian dialogism as
well as in American Southern Literature to hear the concealed/oppressed voices of others in …