"Burn all he has, but keep his books": Gloria Naylor and the Proper Objects of Feminist Chaucer Studies.
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Suzanne M.
"Burn all he has, but keep his books": Gloria Naylor and the Proper Objects of Feminist Chaucer Studies.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 230-52.
- Description
- Centers on Gloria Naylor’s novel "Bailey’s Café," and examines how feminist approaches have informed scholarship of Chaucer's work, often to battle the misogyny of his works, that nevertheless can upload the heteronormative and patriarchal values to which feminism and feminist critique is opposed. Further argues that Naylor's novel offers a way to center marginalized voices and texts in relation to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion