| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 304 pages). |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-285) and index. |
| Contents |
About This Volume / Nagueyalti Warren -- 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 -- 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 -- Resources : Chronology of Alice Walker's Life; Works by Alice Walker; Bibliography. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Essays in this volume discuss critical viewpoints about Walker's work. Topics include a discussion of her symbolism, metaphysics, and aesthetics her views on feminism and her responses to the issues of politics, slavery, poverty and sexism. Also included is a brief biography. |
| Subject |
Walker, Alice, 1944-
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Walker, Alice, 1944- (OCoLC)fst00043003
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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African American authors -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00799028
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Warren, Nagueyalti.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alice Walker. Ipswich, MA : Salem Press, ©2013 9781429837309 (DLC) 2012014427 (OCoLC)777601677 |
| ISBN |
9781429837781 (electronic bk.) |
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1429837780 (electronic bk.) |
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