Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

Naylor’s Mama Day has offered the maintenance of their culture in black society through oral history, story-telling and the presence of ancestors which bring the Afro-Americans closer to their cultural heritage. She focuses on the ins and outs within Afro-American culture and creates an environment in which the richness of black folk culture can be searched. She has potted and drawn on a sense of distinguishing black cosmology and folklore. Thus we see Gloria Naylor like many other writers did, uses the pastoral to romanticize the mystical. The apocalyptic sites of southern plantations are problematized by being used as sites of spirituality and healing. These anti-urban and sub-urban locations explore pastoral histories. While the male authors