Table of contents: Beyond the myth of confrontation: a comparative study of African and African-American female protagonists / Ebele Eko -- A womanist way of speaking: an analysis of language in Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place / Cheryl Lynn Johnson -- Black feminism and media criticism: The Women of Brewster Place / Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter -- The fathomless dream: Gloria Naylor's use of the descent motif in The Women of Brewster Place / Maxine L. Montgomery -- From the hypocrisy of the Reverend Woods to Mama Day's Faith of the Spirit / James Robert Saunders.