| Description |
viii, 245 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Modern critical views |
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Modern critical views.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index. |
| Contents |
"Cast out alone/to/heal/and recreate/ourselves" : family-based identity in the work of Alice Walker / Peter Erickson -- Walker's celebration of self in southern generations / Thadious M. Davis -- The Black woman artist as wayward / Barbara Christian -- Walker's blues / Keith Byerman -- The color purple : revisions and redefinitions / Mae G. Henderson -- Walker's women / Susan Willis -- Discourse of the other : The third life of Grange Copeland / W. Lawrence Hogue -- Black matrilineage : the case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston / Dianne F. Sadoff -- "The changing same" : generational connections and Black women novelists / Deborah E. McDowell -- The hoop of language : politics and the restoration of voice in Meridian / John F. Callahan -- "Show me how to do like you" : didacticism and epistolary form in The color purple / Tamar Katz -- Clytemnestra's children : writing (out) the mother's anger / Marianne Hirsch -- Writing the subject : reading The color purple / Bell Hooks. |
| Subject |
Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans in literature.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
1555463142 alkaline paper $19.95 |
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