Mama Day (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gloria Naylor
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Willow Springs, a fictitious island off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Ophelia (Cocoa) Day, George Johnson, Miranda (Mama) Day, Abigail Day, Ruby, Junior Lee
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Power, personal or social, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, 1980’s, Quilts or quilting, Georgia, Islands, Women, Witches or witchcraft
- Locales: New York, NY, Georgia, Islands, South Carolina
The Novel
Mama Day, Gloria Naylor’s third novel, tells the story of Ophelia (Cocoa) Day and George Johnson, who later becomes her husband, and her initiation into the Day family. The novel is divided into three parts and opens with a brief prologue in which an anonymous, omniscient narrator sets the date as August, 1999; the rest of the novel is therefore a series of flashbacks. The prologue also tells the genealogy of the Days, the most important family of Willow Springs, an isolated island; although claimed by both South Carolina and Georgia, it is ignored and...
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