| Description |
xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-286) and index. |
| Contents |
On Alice Walker / Nagueyalti Warren -- Biography of Alice Walker / Sally Wolff -- Alice Walker : critical reception / Lillie P. Howard -- Critical lens : five critics on Alice Walker / Napolita Hooper-Simanga -- Cultural and historical context / Carmen R. Gillespie -- Pushing gender scripts and color lines in Alice Walker's The color purple and Sapphire's push / Ciara Miller -- "But where was the man in me" Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Meridian and We are the ones we have been waiting for : Alice Walker's evolving vision of the spiritual warrior / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Looking for God : Alice Walker's The color purple and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Paula C. Barnes -- Walker's womanist agenda / Brenda J. Young -- Spiritual colonialism / Deborah Plant -- The myopic eye in Alice Walker's "The flowers" / Antoinette Brim -- Sexuality and the healing of the self: The color purple, Possessing the secret of joy, and By the light of my father's smile / Karla Kovalova -- Living spaces for learning in Alice Walker's The temple of my familiar / Toni Wynn -- Participant, witness, activist: Alice Walker's novels in historical context / Donna Winchell -- Possessing the secret of metaphor: Alice Walker's poetics of self-recovery / Opal Moore -- Euterpe's daughter: ecological/political/sociological poetics of Alice Walker / Gerri Bates -- Alice Walker's essays, speeches, and conversations / Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper. |
| Subject |
Walker, Alice, 1944-
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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African American authors -- Biography.
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Walker, Alice, 1944- (DE-588)118884433
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Subject |
Walker, Alice, 1944- (OCoLC)fst00043003
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Subject |
African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00799028
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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| Added Author |
Warren, Nagueyalti.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Alice Walker. Pasadena, Calif. :Salem Press, ©2013 |
| ISBN |
9781429837309 (hardcover) |
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1429837306 (hardcover) |
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