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Mama Day

by Gloria Naylor · 1988

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Popularity 76

Mama day is about many things. It's the story of Ophelia and George two black American's and how they fall in love in try to reconcile their differences of upbringing and culture. It's about the dying culture of Gullah on the Georgia sea islands and it is even a reworking of Shakespeare's Tempest.

FictionAfrican American womenAfro-Americansgerogia sea islandsGullahGeecheeAfrican American fictionMagic20th centuryGreat-auntsFictonIslands