Medievalism, Race, and Social Order in Gloria Naylor's 'Bailey's Café'

Author / Editor
Wilson, Charles E., Jr.

Title
Medievalism, Race, and Social Order in Gloria Naylor's 'Bailey's Café'

Published
Studies in Medievalism 10: 74-91, 1998.

Description
Suggests that Naylor's novel "revises" CT by using Chaucer's frame technique to eliminate "unnecessary and arbitrary barriers, rules, and labels." Naylor makes the café, like the pilgrim fellowship, a kind of sanctuary.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.