Medievalism, Race, and Social Order in Gloria Naylor's 'Bailey's Café'
- Author / Editor
- Wilson, Charles E., Jr.
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.