Gloria Naylor's poetics of emancipation: (e)merging (im)possibilities in Bailey's cafe / Karen Schneider -- Women's screams and women's laughter: connections and creations in Gloria Naylor's novels / Jenny Brantley -- "Weapons against women": compulsory heterosexuality and capitalism in Linden Hills / Kimberly A. Costino -- Good housekeeping: domestic ritual in Gloria Naylor's fiction / Maxine Lavon Montgomery -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama day / Amy K. Levin -- Africana womanist revision in Gloria Naylor's Mama day and Bailey's cafe / Dorothy Perry Thompson -- "Into the midst of nothing": Gloria Naylor and the Différance / Philip Page -- Framing the possibilities: collective agency and the novels of Gloria Naylor / Margot Anne Kelley.