LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:12 December 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Resurrection of Ben in The Men of Brewster Place

Sadia Tabasum, M.A., M.Phil.

Abstract

Naylor here has resurrected Ben in the novel The Men of Brewster Place, Ben comes from beyond the grave as the Greek chorus; he sees it all and comes as close as one can to understand the men, women of Brewster place. In her debut novel The Women of Brewster Place, Naylor has given importance only to the women and men that have been presented as trouble makers. But in The Men of Brewster Place, almost all the men characters reappear and Naylor has given them a chance to repent for their deeds. In this remarkable work, she brings their voices to life with her characteristic grace, technique and compassion.

Key Words: Frustration, racism, oppression and repentance.

Introduction

Gloria Naylor was born on January 25th, 1950, in New York City, the daughter of Roosevelt Naylor, a transit Worker and Alberta Mc Alpine Naylor, a telephone operator in New York. Naylor’s interest in literature was generated at an early age; she wrote poems at a very early age and began drafting a novel at sixteen. At Brooklyn College she happened to read Toni Morrison’s inaugural novel, The Bluest Eye, an experience that both introduced her to the world of African American literature and provided assistance for her own writing, and she proceeded to write, with an advance from her publisher for The Women of Brewster Place (1982).

Relationship between Women

In The Women of Brewster Place Naylor explores the relationships between women and gives us an insight into what makes them successful. Here she focuses on seven women, struggling to survive in a world that has never been kind to African-Americans, especially towards women. The men here have been given much less importance and the reasons for their actions and behavior have not been revealed. Naylor revisits the lives of these men, while gifting society with another heart-warming novel, The Men of Brewster Place (1998), written fifteen years after the publication of her best-selling novel The women of Brewster place.

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