Alice Walker
Examines the life and work of the author of "The Color Purple" and other works which focus on the lives of black women.
ISBN: 0791019136
Author: Tony Gentry
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Rating: 3.00
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United States Authors Series: Alice Walker
United States Authors Series: Alice Walker
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker is indisputably one of the leading figures of contemporary African American literature. Author of four novels, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and four volumes of poetry, Walker writes of African American women's discovery of their inner selves, selves from which they draw the strength necessary for survival. Drawing on her own background as the daughter of Georgia sharecroppers, Walker has in her works given voice to previously invisible poor rural black women. The overwhelming theme of Walker's work is survival, the survival of the whole self. Walker's personal odyssey, from her southern rural roots, to Sarah Lawrence College (where she came near the brink of suicide), to her discovery of inner peace through self-knowledge and rootedness in the tradition that bore her, informs all of her work. Her central characters, like Walker herself, come to recognize and acknowledge the divine both within themselves and in every thing in the universe. In this study, Donna Haisty Winchell provides a comprehensive study of Walker's entire body of work, including her poetry (often neglected in other critical works), and her most recent novel The Temple of My Familiar. Combining biographical information with critical analysis of Walker's works, Winchell provides a sensitive and insightful overview of this important writer's canon. Her study will be must reading for everyone interested in contemporary American literature, and a necessity for school and college library collections.
ISBN: 0805776427
Author: Donna Haisty Winchell
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Rating: 0.00
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Friday, January 25, 1991
New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
After decades of relegation to the margins of American literary history, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has recently been rediscovered by American literary and cultural scholars who have begun to explore the novel's thematic, ideological, and aesthetic complexity. In the introduction to this volume Michael Awkward provides an overview of the critical reception of Hurston's novel, from the largely dismissive reviews accompanying the novel's publication in 1937, to factors which helped revive interest in Hurston in the 1960s, to its recent establishment as a central American novel. The other essays in the volume discuss Hurston's sophisticated use of black folklore, the autobiographical resonances in the novel, Hurston's definition of the relationship between black artists and the Afro-American masses, and the usefulness of feminist modes of inquiry. This collection offers fresh insight for approaching Hurston's compelling exploration of a black woman's extended search for self and community.
ISBN: 0521383781
Author: Michael Awkward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Rating: 4.00
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Thursday, February 1, 1990
Making American Lit. Tradition
Making American Lit. Tradition
ISBN: 0813515173
Author: Cushing Strout
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Rating: 0.00
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Thursday, September 1, 1988
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
ISBN: 0151421692
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
Rating: 3.97
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Wednesday, June 1, 1988
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin. But Akin actually has five parents: a male and female human, a male and female Oankali, and a sexless Ooloi. The Oankali and Ooloi are part of an alien race that rescued humanity from a devastating nuclear war, but the price they exact is a high one the aliens are compelled to genetically merge their species with other races, drastically altering both in the process.
On a rehabilitated Earth, this "new" race is emerging through human/Oankali/Ooloi mating, but there are also "pure" humans who choose to resist the aliens and the salvation they offer.These resisters are sterilized by the Ooloi so that they cannot reproduce the genetic defect that drives humanity to destroy itself, but otherwise they are left alone (unless they become violent).
When the resisters kidnap young Akin, the Oankali choose to leave the child with his captors, for he the most "human" of the Oankali children will decide whether the resisters should be given back their fertility and freedom, even though they will only destroy themselves again.
This is the second volume in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series, a powerful tale of alien existence.
ISBN: 0446514225
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
Rating: 4.16
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Sunday, May 1, 1988
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene
On the leading edge of biological discovery is one of the most renowned cancer research laboratories in the world. The implications of their discoveries form tomorrow's headlines, yet Angier writes about the scientists themselves and not merely theri successes. 4-page photo insert.
ISBN: 0395453704
Author: Natalie Angier
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Rating: 4.26
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