Alice Walker /

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Imprint:Ipswich, MA : Salem Press, c2013.
Description:xii, 304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Critical insights
Critical insights.
Subject:Walker, Alice, -- 1944-
Walker, Alice, -- 1944-
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
African American authors.
Authors, American.
Biography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8954669
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Other authors / contributors:Warren, Nagueyalti.
ISBN:9781429837309 (hardcover)
1429837306 (hardcover)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-285) and index.
Other form:Online version: Alice Walker. Pasadena, Calif. :Salem Press, c2013
Table of 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.