Experiential Narratives: Contextualizing Black Feminist Standpoint in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe

The present paper attempts to contextualize Black Feminist Standpoint in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe and portrays, through the quintessential narrative matrix of seven women protagonists, how African American women are thrown into the depths of the cataclysm of institutionalized sexism, classism, and racism, and are forced to taste the pungent flavours of marginalization, brutality, invisibilization, and exploitation by the authoritative hands of the mainstream patriarchal hegemony. Further, the paper accentuates upon how, facilitated by their experientialities and experiential narratives, these objectified women eventually smash the shackles of domineering supremacy and construct their distinct Black Feminist Standpoint. These experientialities refer to the ways in which the narratives of these sexually scorned women tap into other victims' acquaintanceship with experience, allowing them to create radically creative spaces for themselves, which not only establish and announce, but also uphold their subjectification, their ultimate standpoint.