Bailey’s Café (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Gloria Naylor
- First Published: 1992
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Child rearing or parenting, United States or Americans, Wives, Racism, 1940’s, Betrayal, Prejudices or antipathies, Prostitution or prostitutes, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Roads, streets, or highways, Virginity or virgins, World War II
- Locales: United States
The Work
Set in 1948, Bailey’s Cafe, Gloria Naylor’s fourth novel, is her self-described “sexual novel.” Similar to The Women of Brewster Place, it tells the tragic histories of female characters who suffer simply because they are sexual. The underlying structure of blues music recasts these feminist rewritings of biblical stories. The characters’ own blues-influenced narrations provide the equivalent of melody, and the male narrator supplies the connecting texts linking one story to another.
The proprietor of Bailey’s Cafe, who is the narrator,...
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