Mama Day (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gloria Naylor
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
If Linden Hills strains credulity, then the main setting of Mama Day is even more unbelievable, if not downright mythical: Willow Springs, a southern coastal island relatively unwashed by the tides of racism. The island is populated by the descendants of white slaveholder Bascombe Wade and his black wife Sapphira and of other slaves that he freed and deeded land to back in 1823. Since that time, the island has been plagued mainly by malaria, Union soldiers, sandy soil, two big depressions, and hurricanes. The fictitious barrier island lies off the coast of South Carolina...
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