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...take issue with Gray's statement that Morrison is "the author who almost single-handedly gave African-American women their rightful place in American literature." That view heedlessly erases the numerous African-American women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Octavia Butler and Carolivia Herron among them--who, as Morrison's sisters, have brilliantly contributed to contemporary African-American letters. THOMAS GRAVE Providence...
...What Naylor believed, just as Blake did long after him, was that if Christ forgives all our sins, then we are all, in a sense, perfect," Damrosch said, referring to one of his favorite poets...
Damrosch's dramatic flair could be compared to that of a figure he has studied for an upcoming book, James Naylor. Naylor was a leader of the British Quakers in the 17th century and was anything but austere...
Although "the entire Parliament of England spent two weeks on this guy," Damrosch said, Naylor rarely receives more than a paragraph in histories of the period...
Damrosch's book, soon to be published, is called The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus and explores Naylor's writings, which are archived in Harvard's Houghton Library...