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Clearly written and cogently argumented, the book, African American Literature: Politics of Marginal Space in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor, makes complex theoretical concepts accessible, skillfully includes quoted material and is accurate and careful in its documentation. With a splendid discourse on the politics of marginal space, the book makes a substantial contribution not only to the critical corpus on Gloria Naylor and to African American Studies but contributes as well to the growing scholarship on the modern, postmodern and postcolonial conditions informing the global structural inequities which expel the dispossessed and powerless to marginal space.