The women of Brewster place by Gloria Naylor

The women of Brewster place by 

                                      Gloria Naylor

Summery :-

As we study about African literature and how the African - American culture see in literature. But we know that African American literature in feminist writers is no more, but here I reviews about Anglo- American very famous and notorious African - American black writer, feminist critics Gloria Naylor. She was raised in a comfortable middle class community in queens, but her family’s roots were in Mississippi. Her famous and first novel, ‘The women of Brewster place’ reflects this dual culture inheritance. We find that in American and African literature in women are center and also our society marginality of women. Here we see that characters are transplanted from their home community in the south to unnamed northern city that is the context for this novel. We find that in this novel in African American community of affluent and also see that the spiritual moral concern that Naylor brought to her novel “The women of Brewster place”. Naylor continued to present the ideas that compromise the experience of African American culture and especially black women.

The women of Brewster place are a novel told in six stories about seven black women and all women characters are centered. We find that seven are individual and while there are tells to this place Brewster in her life want way and how their in entire community at all in tells them. Brewster place is a housing development in an unnamed city. It seems destined to be an unfortunate place. Since the people linked to its creation are all corrupt.  The stories within the novel are the stories these residents.  The first and longest narrative within the novel is Mattie Michael. Mattie’s purchases the house and remain there to raise her son; basil grows up to be a troubled Young man who is unable to claim responsibility for his actions.  Mattie’s childhood friend, Etta Johnson joins Mattie at Brewster place. After a long life of running from one man to the next. She has arrived at Mattie’s hopping to find some stability. Naylor constructs a seventh ostensibly designed to draw discrete elements together, and she give thinks “round off the collection”, as “the block party” is a vision of community effort. In here we see that third person narrator of the expresses this thought in the “kiswana Browne”, kiswana’s mother is approaching Brewster place.  The thought exemplifies the combination of hope and frustration that defines the lives of Brewster place’s residents. Ben has lived in Brewster place longer than any other resident, and he is also the first African- American to have lived in the community. 

In here novel in several character leave to gather and we see that how they became dependent to each other, and Naylor uses symbols in “The women of Brewster place” and we know that this place is dead end of street and women struggle in this place and here “Home” at all them and we find that the women who live there are trapped by their histories, hope, desire, dream and leave still to gather at family them. It also stands for oppression the women have endured in the forms of prejudice, violence, racism, shame, sexism. And we see that Etta, Cora, Mattie, Sophia, Ben, Michel, Miss Eva,  kiswana  etc are face and how the African – American  society are still representing the drug dealing street gangs who rape and kill without remorse garbage and we find that this women at physical relation to unknown men partner and her children  are unknown them. This novel title has appropriated one like that Naylor gives Brewster place human characters and this place undergoes life processes here. 

This Brewster place is born, in Naylor says that “Bastard child”, and we see that their father are unknown and Naylor give beautiful image about their women‘s stories within framework of the street and place life between its birth and death. Here we see that how male dominated men are treated to women and so many affair or sexual relationship to women and they don’t care of this women and his child. And we see that Mattie succeed in her struggle to bring ceil back to life after death of her, she is sensitive healing, and rebirth of her life. And Naylor has women and how she give thinks about women unknown identity to this society and society became cruel to women and they only for leaving life and women dependent to male and force fully they want way to this path and join gangs, dealing drugs, prostitutes, physical relationship to so many men and women has do that forcefully and no other choice to still leaving in this society. In this place Brewster place has symbol and not only for Africa but in example that in India ‘Dharvi slums’ has one became Brewster place in India.

 

 In India Maharashtra ‘Dharvi slums’ has one Brewster place and we see that how women became use that particular class rich or poor men and it may be says that women are poor, not earn money, helpless, dowry, Slums, hopeless and society become forcefully women want way and we know says that they became prostitutes and no any chance to still leaving at all no money them. and how women any earn money and they want them and how rich, and power position people use to poor, law class women at sexual and women no any choice at all, and forcely their want way and ‘Dharvi slums’ has one example and also in India but in world so many county and city in how men are use sexual perversion and physical relationship at knowingly inwomen and women at cruelly treated to men.

So we conclude that Naylor partial to African American heritage see in this novel and how black women situation to society and no one can give them to male are dominated and they use to sexual and cruel treated than.

And here we see that Brewster place’s women lives within the failure of the sixties dreams and there is no doubt a dimensions of the women that reelects on specific to individualized. And Naylor has to create all one character, one protagonist at them to seven dreams and this place are symbol and Naylor focus on the individual dreams and psychologies of the women in the stories. Naylor’s novel the women Brewster place  does not offer itself as a definitive treatment of black women, community, society, religious, country  but it reflects a reality that great many black women in particular to individual, and their stories in this place.