Conversations with Gloria Naylor by Maxine Lavon Montgomery

Conversations with Gloria Naylor by Maxine Lavon Montgomery

In 1982, one year after graduating from Brooklyn College, Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) made her debut on the literary scene with The Women of Brewster Place. The novel was critically acclaimed, filmed as a made-for-television movie, and turned into a television miniseries. Naylor's output now includes five novels, an edited collection of short stories, two theater projects, and a series of articles, essays, notes, and an unpublished work that combines fiction and nonfiction. Conversations with Gloria Naylor collects her interviews and shows her to be one of the most talented novelists to emerge in the past twenty years. The fourteen interviews that are included range from 1983, soon after the publication of her first novel, to 2000, following the publication of The Men of Brewster Place. Altogether they shed light on Naylor in all her wit, wisdom, and candor. She is the first among the current generation of African American women novelists to have made a study of her literary predecessors. Interviews with her are compelling in their revelation of the evolutionary journey of a self-professed introvert and dreamer who is as indebted to the English classics as she is to blues, jazz, or Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. An indispensable resource for a study of Naylor's life and art, Conversations with Gloria Naylor offers rare insight into works that are in the vanguard of contemporary American literature. Maxine Lavon Montgomery, is an associate professor of English at Florida State University and the author of The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction. Her work has been published in African-American Review, College Language Association Journal, the Literary Griot, and Obsidian II: African-American Literature in Review.

Maxine Lavon Montgomery is a Professor of English at Florida State University where she teaches courses in African Diaspora, American Multi-Ethnic, and Women's Literature. She is the author of The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction, Conversations with Gloria Naylor; and The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance. Her articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as African-American Review, The South Carolina Review, The College Language Association Journal, Obsidian, II, The Literary Griot, The Mid-Atlantic Writers' Association Journal, and The Journal of Black Masculinity. She is currently at work on a book-length monograph tentatively entitled Black Paris: From Hughes to Hip Hop, an interdisciplinary examination of Paris as a locus for black cultural production.

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ISBN 13	9781578066339
ISBN 10	1578066336
Title	Conversations with Gloria Naylor
Author	Maxine Lavon Montgomery
Series	Literary Conversations Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University Press of Mississippi
Year published	2004-04-30
Number of pages	277
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