Sunday, January 2, 2000

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Since the publication of The Color Purple in 1983, Alice Walker has gained a reputation as one of the most popular and most controversial writers in the African American literary tradition. This book explains Walker's project as a "womanist" writer and as a cultural and political activist who increasingly styles herself as a New Age visionary. The author traces Walker's distinctive themes of child abuse and women's sexuality and shows the development of Walker's theories of racial hybridity, spirituality and goddess worship as well as her treatment of African American history. In an original reading of her oeuvre, Lauret shows convincingly that Walker continues to stretch her own, and her readers', imaginative visions.

ISBN: 0312224311
Author: Maria Lauret
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Rating: 3.00

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Saturday, January 1, 2000

Alice Walker: Freedom Writer

Alice Walker: Freedom Writer

Alice Walker: Freedom Writer

Discusses the personal life and literary career of the African American woman who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple..

ISBN: 0822549603
Author: Caroline Lazo
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Rating: 4.00

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