Short Story Cycles

Keyword: The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place: Evolution of a Short Story Cycle

An analysis of The Women of Brewster Place highlighting the cycle's contribution to the narrative of community....
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Inclusive Memory: The Power of Collective Remembering in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

This essay considers how collective memory works to develop and sustain a group identity in Gloria Naylor’s 1980 novel, The Women of Brewster Place. Using post-structural theorist Bronwyn Davies’s collective biography project as a model...

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