Mama Day Summary
Gloria Naylor

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Mama Day Summary

Mama Day is a novel by Gloria Naylor, the American Book Award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place. This novel follows the lives of Miranda (Mama) Day and her family. Mama Day is told in both third person (Mama Day’s story) and in the first person, in a dialogue between Mama Day’s grandniece Ophelia (Cocoa) Day, and her husband, George Andrews.

The Days are descendants of slaves, freed...

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Gloria Naylor Biographies (4)

Gloria Naylor

1,276 words, approx. 5 pages

The author Gloria Naylor (born 1950) wrote novels that emphasized the strengths of women, especially African American women, and the effects on the lives of people of racism, sexism, and the drive for... Read more

Gloria Naylor

2,165 words, approx. 8 pages

"I . . . wanted to be a writer from the time I was twelve or thirteen years old. But whether that was going to be a probable goal for me didn't come up as an issue for me until my college years," nove... Read more

Gloria Naylor

3,849 words, approx. 13 pages

The emergence of Gloria Naylor on the American literary scene was sudden--The Women of Brewster Place (1982) was her first book--and intense, as Naylor added her voice to those of the few black women ... Read more

Gloria Naylor

5,779 words, approx. 20 pages

As author of The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor has assured her place in a body of literature which she has revered since childhood, a reverence owed directly to her mother. "My parents were f... Read more

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