After high school graduation in , Naylor's solution to the shock and confusion she experienced in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr. It wasn't until she entered Brooklyn College as an English major in her mids that she discovered "writers who were of my complexion. It's important that when people turn to what they consider the portals of knowledge, they be taught all of American literature.
Naylor wrote "The Women of Brewster Place" while she was a student, finishing it the very month she graduated in But her first published work was a short story that was accepted by Marcia Gillespie, then editor of Essence magazine. The story, published in a issue of the magazine, later become a part of her first novel. I was totally freaked out when that happened and I didn't write for another seven or eight months. The idea that I could have what I really dreamed of, a writing career, seemed overwhelming.
She won a scholarship to Yale University where she received a master's degree in Afro-American studies, with a concentration in American literature, in Graduate school was a problem, she says, because Yale was "the home base of all nationally known Structuralist critics. I came there with one novel under my belt and a second one under way, and there was something wrong about it. Fellow authors soon paid tribute on Twitter, with Terry McMillan urging her followers to "read everything Gloria Naylor has ever written" and Tayari Jones thanking her for choosing her for a literary award in and helping to launch her career.
It was published in and praised by The New York Times as "emotionally satisfying and technically accomplished," with Brewster Place itself the narrative's star. By the late s, she had published stories in Essence magazine that would later become part of "Brewster Place. Mattie takes her to church, where Etta meets Reverend Woods.
She is taken by his looks, wealth, and status, but after sleeping with him, she realizes it was all just a fantasy and that he wanted only sex. Etta leaves feeling broken, but her spirit is restored once she finds out that Mattie has stayed up all night waiting for her. Raised in the affluent community, Linden Hills, Kiswana dropped out of college to live in Brewster Place, where she believes she can effect real social change in the black community.
Before leaving, she secretly gives Kiswana enough money to have a phone line installed. Lucielia Louis Turner, also known as Ciel, is the granddaughter of Ms. Lucielia grew up with Mattie and her son, Basil.
Now grown, Lucielia has a daughter, Serena, with a man named Eugene. Eugene, in addition to constantly leaving Lucielia, also treats her and their daughter terribly. After complaining about his lack of opportunities, Eugene indirectly gets Lucielia to abort what would have been their second child. While Lucielia and Eugene are fighting, Serena chases a roach into an electric socket with a fork. She is electrocuted and dies, leaving Lucielia nearly lifeless with grief.
As a child, Cora Lee was obsessed with babies, and this obsession continues when she is an adult. Beginning in her sophomore year of high school, she has one child after another, almost all with different men. She tries to help Cora Lee by inviting her to a production of a Shakespeare play being staged in the park.
She cleans them and the house in preparation for the play. It isn't kinky hair, It isn't straight hair; Black is just Black. It broke my heart when you changed your name. I gave you my grandmother's name, a woman who bore nine children and educated them all, who held off six white men with a shotgun when they tried to drag one of her sons to jail for "not knowing his place".
And you needed to reach into an African dictionary to find a name that would make you proud. When I brought my babies home from the hospital, I swore to whatever gods that would listen, that I would use everything I had or could get so that that my children would be prepared to meet this world on its own terms, so that on one could make them ashamed of what they were or how they looked, whatever they were or however they looked.
And Melanie, that's not white or red or black or purple. That's being a mother. Sign In. Episode guide. Play trailer See more at IMDbPro. Episodes 2. Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Trailer The Women Of Brewster Place. Photos Top cast Edit. Robin Givens Kiswana as Kiswana …. Moses Gunn Ben as Ben. Paula Kelly Theresa as Theresa. Leon Abshu as Abshu. Lonette McKee Lorraine as Lorraine.
Lynn Whitfield Ciel as Ciel.
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