Ready Reference Treatise: The Women of Brewster Place

By Raja Sharma

“The Women of Brewster Place” by Gloria Naylor was first published in 1982. It was her debut novel. It was a highly successful book, acclaimed by both critics and authors of the time.

The book was the winner of the National Book Award in the category of First Novel. It was also adapted into a movie in 1989, and then in the year 1990 it was made into a television show that was produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions.

The book very thoroughly investigates the lives of both men and women in an urban setting. It also explores relationships, including homosexual relationships. The author also deals with the theme of romantic love that is associated to friendship.

Ready Reference Treatise: The Women of Brewster Place
Copyright
Chapter One: About the Author
Chapter Two: Introduction
Chapter Three: Major Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Oct 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310618819

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Women of Brewster Place

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Ready Reference Treatise: The Women of Brewster Place

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: About the Author

Gloria Naylor, the author of the book, was born on 25th of January 1950, in New York City. She was brought up in a middle class community in Queens. However, her family had originally come from Mississippi. Hers was a comfortable middle-class family.

During the Great Migration of African-Americans from rural southern communities to big industrial cities and towns, her parents had migrated from the South.

The Women of Brewster Place was the author’s debut novel. It was published in 1982. The book describes the dual cultural inheritance.

Most of the characters in the novel have been inspired by the real people the author had come across during her life. The characters have been transplanted from their home community in the South to the unnamed modern city. The story revolves around this basic subject.

Naylor received her bachelor’s degree in literature from Brooklyn College. Having graduated from the college, she began to take fiction writing very seriously.

She had been taught to respect and love the classics of English literature by her parents and elders.

She was an avid reader and she had thoroughly studied the works of Faulkner, Dickens, Baldwin, and Ellison, however, Naylor felt that in those works she did not finds the stories that showed her own experiences as an African-American woman.

She had been raised with a specific tradition, but she needed to break with the tradition. However, she needed a model through which she could enable herself to present her