The book is a pioneering endeavor to critically analyse the first five novels of the eminent Afro-American writer Gloria Naylor. These are: The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988), Bailey’s Cafe (1992). The Men of Brewster Place (1998) and Naylor has been a writer immersed absolutely in the African-American formal history of tradition and culture. Her major concern is to reveal the female quest for identity and in her novels ...