Critical Essays on Alice Walker

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Critical Essays on Alice Walker

Alice Walker is one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century American literature. This collection of essays represents a dispassionate scholarly effort to comprehend the essential elements of her prolific imagination, which celebrates women by chronicling their troubled journey from silence to self-expression and from pain to resistance. The essays fall largely into three main groups, focusing on Walker's most famous and controversial novel, "The Color Purple," on her poetry, which has for too long met with critical neglect, and on her ecofeminist novel, "The Temple of My Familiar."

ISBN: 0313300127

Author: Ikenna Dieke

Publisher: Praeger

Rating: 1.00

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Pema Chodron and Alice Walkerin Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy

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Pema Chodron and Alice Walkerin Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy

When author Alice Walker found herself in a difficult life passage, a friend sent her a tape session with Pema Chodron, an American-born Buddhist nun. Pema Chodron had already won attention for her accessible teachings. This audio cassette documents their first encounter.

ISBN: 1564556700

Author: Pema Chödrön

Publisher: Sounds True

Rating: 4.20

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With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People s History

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With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People s History

With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857–1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brulé Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firsthand the often devastating changes forced on the Lakotas. As Bettelyoun grew older, she became increasingly dissatisfied with the way her people’s history was being represented by non-Natives. With My Own Eyes represents her attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. Bettelyoun’s narrative was recorded during the 1930s by another Lakota historian, Josephine Waggoner. This detailed, insightful account of Lakota history was never previously published.

ISBN: 0803261640

Author: Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun

Publisher: Bison Books

Rating: 3.63

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Amanda Pig, Schoolgirl

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Amanda Pig, Schoolgirl

Finally it is the day Amanda Pig has been waiting for. It is the first day of school. Whether making a new friend, coloring a picture to put up in the classroom, or twirling around in the sandbox, Amanda is everyone's favorite schoolgirl.

ISBN: 0141303573

Author: Jean Van Leeuwen

Publisher: Penguin Young Readers

Rating: 3.71

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