A Post Colonial approach in Gloria Naylor’s Fiction

Abstract

We will apply a post colonial approach to Gloria Naylor’s work The Women of Brewster Place. It will inhibit the aspects of post colonialism used as ghettoization and racialism. AfroAmerican means people of African descent residing in U.S. In the novel, The Women of Brewster Place(1982), which I will discuss about these people and the aspects of magic realism applied in
lives of these women.
In the postcolonial period, it could also be referred as post war period the focus was on education, health and more on personal and family problems. Gaps opened up between the city life secured and the lives of Black Afro-Americans, racism emerged as a problem. Brewster Place exploded in violence by C.C.Baker which has been amplified rather controlled by policing of the State. InThe Ghetto and the Underclass Essays of race and Social Policy by John Rex, it presents social policies framed by US for the immigrants’ slaves. In the post-colonial world, it could also be referred as post-war period the focus was on education, health and more on
personal and family problems. In 1967 the new policy was concerned with the process of urbanization and sub urbanization. From a situation in which the great cities had been seen as the very centers of high civilization and culture, the United States has moved to a situation in which these cities were seen as desolate, deserted and dangerous places. There seemed to be a secular
change occurring within its civilization in which the natural process of urban development was producing a wholly new ideal style of life and the ‘Inner City’ remained as a festering sore on the body politic. The problem was to treat that sore, to provide the whole of urban civilization itself. The Blacks were the minorities in U.S. they did not had access to public housing, mainstream
working class white population lived on public houses. Blacks lived in dilapidated ghetto.