Women Empowerment in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster’s Place.

Name of Author : Ms. V. Chithra

Abstract: The Women of Brewster place is the debut novel of Gloria Naylor. The American Novelist has penned the novel in such a way that it navigates the readers from one character to the other of the seven women characters, whose stories are interwoven to create this novel. Brewster place is a dilapidated housing apartment in the ghettos of an unnamed city in the northern half of the United States. This paper attempts to bring out the power of personal connections that bring the women together in the assertion of their identity. Naylor voices out the struggle of the Afro American women who try to emerge out of their suppressions and empower each other from the socio-economic oppression and break the barrier which isolated them from the American Society. The seven characters are Mattie Michael, Etta Mae Johnson, Kiswana Browne, Lucielia Louise Turner, Cora Lee, Lorraine and Theresa. Each chapter unfolds the shattered dreams and the emancipation of the characters from the miseries the society subjects them to.

Keywords : Power, personal connections, identity, assertion, suppressions, empower, emancipation

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