The Color Purple (by Alice Walker)

Walker, Alice - 1944–, African-American novelist and poet, b. Eatonon, Ga. She brings her travel experience in Africa and memories of the American civil-rights movement to an examination of the experience of African Americans, mainly in the South, and of Africans. Among her works of fiction are the novels Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982; Pulitzer Prize), The Temple of My Familiar Read More...

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Alice Walker's The Color Purple (literary criticism)
by Harold Bloom. 240 pgs.

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-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature
-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism
-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index

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Modern Critical Interpretations Alice Walker's: The Color Purple

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Editor's Note

Introduction

Race, Gender, and Nation in the Color Purple

Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (re)writing of the Speakerly Text

Writing the Subject: Reading the Color Purple

Show Me How to Do like You: Didacticism and Epistolary Form in the Color Purple

Trying to Do Without God: the Revision of Epistolary Address in the Color Purple

Romance, Marginality, Matrilineage: the Color Purple

With Ears to Hear and Eyes to See: Alice Walker's Parable the Color Purple

The Color Purple: a Study of Walker's Womanist Gospel

Race and Domesticity in the Color Purple

Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists— Iola Leroy and the Color Purple

Somebody I Can Talk To: Teaching Feminism Through the Color Purple

Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index
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Critical Essays on Alice Walker (Chap. 6 "Creating Generations: The Relationship between Celie and Shug in Alice Walker's The Color Purple" and Chap. 9 "The Color Purple: An Existential Novel")
by Ikenna Dieke. 226 pgs.

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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.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Alice Walker, a Woman Walking into Peril

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Chapter 2: The Occupational Hazard: The Loss Of Historical Context in Twentieth-Century Feminist Readings, and a New Reading Of the Heroine's Story in Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Chapter 3: Heritage and Deracination in Walker's "Everyday Use"

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Chapter 4: Alice Walker's Womanist Magic: The Conjure Woman as Rhetor

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Chapter 5: When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories By Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich

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Chapter 6: Creating Generations: The Relationship Between Celie and Shug in Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Chapter 7: Alice Walker and the "Man Question"

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Chapter 8: Revolutionary Stanzas: The Civil and Human Rights Poetry of Alice Walker

Chapter 9: The Color Purple: An Existential Novel

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Chapter 10: Alice Walker's Redemptive Art

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Chapter 11: Walker's the Temple of My Familiar: Womanist as Monistic Idealist

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Chapter 12: Alice Walker's American Quilt: The Color Purple and American Literary Tradition

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Chapter 13: Who Touches This Touches a Woman: The Naked Self in Alice Walker

Chapter 14: Nothing Can Be Sole or Whole That Has Not Been Rent: Fragmentation in the Quilt and the Color Purple

Chapter 15: What She Got to Sing About?: Comedy and the Color Purple

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Chapter 16: Alice Walker: Poesy and the Earthling Psyche

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Appendix: Chronology

Index

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Race and Domesticity in 'The Color Purple,' in African American Review
by Linda Selzer. 16 pgs.

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Feminism and Cultural Studies (Chap. 14 "The Color Purple: Black Women as Cultural Readers")
by Morag Shiach. 604 pgs.

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Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study. Collected together by scholars of outstanding reputation in their field, the articles chosen represent the most important work on feminist issues, and concise, lively introductions to each volume crystallize the main lines of debate in the field. This collection, edited by Morag Shiach, brings together exciting work in feminism and cultural studies from different countries and different historical moments. It combines 'classic' articles with more recent work to offer an insight into the challenges and innovations of work within cultural studies. The collection is organised thematically in ways which illuminate the development of theoretical and political debates within feminism and cultural studies. Different traditions within cultural studies are brought into relation with each other to explore areas such as commodification, women and labour, mass culture, fantasy and ideas of home.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

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Part I Consuming and Commodities

1: Things To Do With Shopping Centres

2: Consumerism Reconsidered Buying and Power

3: Shut Up and Dance Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity

References

4: Cast Upon Their Own Resources the Girl's Own Paper and Harmsworth's Trendsetters

5: Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference

6: The Death of the Profane (A commentary on the Genre of Legal Writing)

Part II Working

7: Women Audiences and the Workplace

8: Typical Girls? Young Women from School to the Job Market Looking Forward

9: The Tale of Samuel and Jemima Gender and Working-Class Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century England

10: Becoming a Woman in London in the 1920s and '30s

11: High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age and Comedy

Part III The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

12: Women's Cinema as Counter Cinema

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13: Desperately Seeking Difference

14: The Color Purple Black Women as Cultural Readers

15: Women and Soap Opera A Woman's Space

16: Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman, 1977-1987

17: Family, Education, Photography

18: Pedagogies of the Feminine Feminist Teaching and Women's Genres

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Part IV Fantasies of Desire

19: 'Returning to Manderley' Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality, and Class

20: Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End

21: Who's Read Macho Sluts?

22: Disciplinary Desires The Outside of Queer Feminist Cultural Studies

References

23: 'Who Fancies Pakis?' Pamella Bordes and the Problems of Exoticism in Multiracial Britain

Part V Home?

24: 'As Housewives we are Worms' Women, Modernity, and the Home Question

References

25: Hygiene and Modernization: Housekeeping

26: Feminist Politics: What's Home Got to Do with It?

27: On Not Speaking Chinese Postmodern Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora

28: From Hestia to Home Page Feminism and the Concept of Home in Cyberspace

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Further Reading

Index
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple" begins on p. 159)
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface: Native American Literature

Indian Preservation: Teaching Black Elk Speaks

Beauty Before Me: Notes on House Made of Dawn (n. Scott Momaday)

Crying for Vision in James Welch's Winter in the Blood

Ceremony: from Alienation to Reciprocity (leslie Marmon Silko)

Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)

Preface: African American Literature

Ethnic and Gender Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Racial Discourse and Self-Creation: Richard Wright's Black Boy

"Measure Him Right": an Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

"Closer to the Edge": Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Preface: Mexican American Literature

Learning to Read (and/In) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

Chicano Theatre Reaches the Professional Stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit

Entering the House on Mango Street (sandra Cisneros)

Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and New Perspectives on Ethnic Autobiography

Preface: Asian American Literature

Searching for the Heart of "America" (carlos Bulosan)

"Growing with Stories":: Chinese American Identities, Textual Identities (maxine Hong Kingston)

Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Reading Between the Syllables: Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Swan-Feather Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters: Teaching Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Contributors
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Literature and Film as Modern Mythology (Chap. 6 "A Return to Matriarchy: The Color Purple by Alice Walker")
by William K. Ferrell. 218 pgs.

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Novels and films record and codify the cultural experiences of their people. This book explores the relationship between contemporary literature and film of the past fifty years and the ancient myths of Judeo-Christian, Greek, Celtic, and Eastern origin. Following a detailed description and explanation of both literary and film devices, stories that conform to a mythic tradition are analyzed to identify what they reveal about modern culture. This work explores such diverse subjects as heroism, coming of age, and morality. This approach to literature and film explores how contemporary fiction and film fulfill a continuum in our never-ending search to understand how life ought to be lived.

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PART I THE JOURNEY BEGINS

Chapter 1 In the Beginning

Chapter 2 Reading the Novel and the Film

PART II KNIGHTS AND HEROES

Chapter 3 Hope Springs Eternal "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King

Chapter 4 A Search for Laughter: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Chapter 5 Romantic Heroes Never Die: Shane

PART III RITES OF PASSAGE

Chapter 6 A Return to Matriarchy: The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Chapter 7 Finding Yourself in a Lost World: The English Patient

Chapter 8 The Steep Hills of Thalia, Texas: The Last Picture Show

PART IV MORALITY AND MAGIC

Chapter 9 A "Good" Politician is Hard to Find: All the King's Men

Chapter 10 Heaven Comes to Iowa Shoeless Joe/Field of Dreams

Chapter II Finding Morality in a Bullring: The Sun Also Rises

Chapter 12 Politics and the Public: Being There

PART V CLOSURE

Appendix A Midterm Perspective

Appendix B Research Project

Appendix C Reading and Film List

Works Cited

Index
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Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction (Chap. 5 "The Emergent Woman's Family in The Color Purple")
by Horst S. Daemmrich, Desmond F. McCarthy. 168 pgs.

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1: Reconstructing the Family As a Utopian Project

2: The Family in Crisis

3: Harry Angstrom's Flights From the Family

4: The Family According to Garp

5: The Emergent Woman's Family In the Color Purple

6: America as Family: E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime

7: The Reconstructed Family And Social Change

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender ("Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982)" begins on p. 75)
by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.

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This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Women’s Roles and Influence in Mark Twain’s the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

The War against the Feminine: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Doctor She! Helena and Sisterhood in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (ca. 1602–1603)

For Further Reading

Mother, Wife, Fallen Woman: Marital Choice in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877)

Young Lady or slut: Identity and Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1983)

Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles’ Antigone (441 B.C.E.)

Work Cited

Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin’s the Awakening (1899)

For Further Reading

Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver’s the Bean Trees (1988)

William Faulkner’s Male Myth: the Bear (1942)

More Than Skin Deep: Robin Mckinley’s Beauty: a Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)

Sylvia Plath’s the Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminine Mystique (1963)

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987): Maternal Possibilities, Sisterly Bonding

Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945, 1991) and Black Women

Works Cited

Culture, Tradition, Family: Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima (1972)

Girls into Women: Culture, Nature, and Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison’s the Bluest Eye (1970)

Founding Women’s History: Christine de Pizan Writes the Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

Works Cited

A Dystopic Vision of Gender in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932)

An Immigrant Girl’s Quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers (1925)

For Further Reading

As My Mother’s Daughter: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994)

Non-Conformists and Traditionalists: Buchi Emecheta’s the Bride Price (1976)

The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London’s the Call of the Wild (1904)

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Gender in the Middle Ages (ca. 1388–1400)

Sex, Violence, and Peter Pan: J.D.Salinger’s the Catcher in the Eye (1951)

Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple (1982)

The Women in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866)

Witch-Hunting, Thwarted Desire, and Girl Power: Arthur Miller’s the Crucible (1953)

A Nice Girl Ought to Know! Henry James’ Daisy Miller (1878)

Redefining Female Absence in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949)

Black and White Womanhood in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose: Mammies, Ladies, Rebels (1986)

Work Cited

Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl: Writing a Self—the Female Adolescent Voice (1952)

For Further Reading

The Slammed Door That Still Reverberates: Henrik Ibsen’s a Doll’s House (1879)

Frozen Lives: Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911)

Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway’s a Farewell to Arms (1929)

The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress’ Florence (1950)

For Further Reading

Daring Creation: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818, Revised 1831)

Shattered Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams’ the Glass Menagerie (1945)

What It Means to Be a Lady: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936)

Works Cited

Patriarchy and Property: Women in Pearl S.Buck’s the Good Earth (1931)

No Expectations at All: Women in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861)

Works Cited

Beautiful Fools and Hulking Brutes: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby (1925)

Reading between the Lines: Connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ca. 1600)

Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Work Cited

When Women Shape the World: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

Works Cited

Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros’ the House on Mango Street (1984)

Living in a Borderland: Cultural Expectations of Gender in Julia Alvarez’ How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)

A Song of Freedom: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Good Mother, Bad Mother in Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964)

Bobbie Ann Mason’s in Country (1985): a Girl’s Quest for Her Father and Herself

The Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)

Works Cited

Be True to Yourself: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)

Thinking Different in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club (1989)

Gender Bending: Ursula le Guin’s the Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

What a Teacher Learns: Ernest J.Games’ a Lesson before Dying (1993)

Works Cited

The Foreignness of Femininity in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900)

Boys’ Club—no Girls Allowed: Absence as Presence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)

Unnatural: Women in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (ca. 1606)

Emma Rouault Bovary: Gendered Reflections in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

(Re)surfacing Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis

Critiquing “the We of Me”: Gender Roles in Carson Mccullers’ the Member of the Wedding (1946)

Works Cited

Beauty and Gender in Alix Kates Shulman’s Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972)

Where No Role Fits: Maggie’s Predicament in George Eliot’s the Mill on the Floss (1860)

For Further Reading

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: Epic Tale of Male Destruction (1851)

For Further Reading

Images of Possibility: Gender Identity in Willa Cather’s My Àntonia (1918)

Work Cited

The Good Woman: Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve (1954)

Boyhood Unraveled: Elie Wiesel’s Night (1960)

Sexuality as Rebellion in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)

Homer’s Odyssey: “the Iliad’s Wife” (ca. 700 B.C.E.)

Jocasta and Her Daughters: Women in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (ca. 430 B.C.E.)

Women Stripped of Humanity: John Steinbeck’s of Mice and Men (1937)

Role Traps in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

Under the Burden of Yellow Peril: Race, Class, and Gender in Yoshiko Uchida’s Picture Bride (1987)

For Further Reading

Woman and Art in James Joyce’s a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Truths Universally Acknowledged: Stereotypes of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Undue Influence in Muriel Spark’s the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Exploring the Gender Puzzle of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912)

Work Cited

Seasoned with Quiet Strength: Black Womanhood in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Heroism against the Odds: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1599)

Molly Bolts and Lifelines: Rita Mae Brown’s Ruby Fruit Jungle (1973)

A as Hester’s Autonomy in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter (1850)

Female Freedom in Other Places and Inner Spaces: Suzanne Fisher Staples’ Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1989)

For Further Reading

Gender in Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)

Empowerment through Writing in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979)

Wearing “her Favour in the Battle”: the “go-Between” in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913)

Riding Tennessee Williams’ a Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Agent or Victim: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles (1891)

An African-American Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Fragmenting Culture, Fragmenting Lives: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1959)

Just a Lady: Gender and Power in Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Women Righting Wrongs: Morality and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916)

For Further Reading

For Such as We Are Made Of, Such We Be: the Construction of Gender in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will (first Performed 1602)

Work Cited

The Power of Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

A Chinese-American Woman Warrior Comes of Age: Maxine Hong Kingston’s the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)

The Will to Survive in Gloria Naylor’s the Women of Brewster Place (1982)

Procrustean Bed: Gender Roles in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)

Negotiating Tight Spaces: Women in Michael Dorris’ a Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988)

Index of Literary Works by Author

Subject Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Contemporary Fiction (Discussion of The Color Purple begins on p. 211)
by Jago Morrison. 262 pgs.

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This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its enormous diversity, however, the field of contemporary fiction studies can appear complex and confusing. Jago Morrison's Contemporary Fiction provides a much-needed accessible introduction to the field. He enables readers to navigate the subject by introducing the key areas of debate and offers in-depth discussions of many of the most significant texts. Writers examined include: Ian McEwan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jeanette Winterson, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker. Tackling issues such as history, time and narrative, the body, race and ethnicity, this represents an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary fiction.

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Acknowledgements

Part I: Frameworks

Introduction

1: History and Post-Histories

2: Time and Narrative

3: Bodies, Genders

4: Writing and Race

Part II: Readings

5: Unravelling Time in Ian Mcewan’s Fiction

6: Memory Blocks: The Fictional Autobiography of Maxine Hong Kingston

7: Jeanette Winterson: Re-Membering the Body

8: Toni Morrison: Blackness and the Historical Imagination

9: Imagining Nations: Salman Rushdie’s Counter-Histories

10: Angela Carter: Genealogies

11: After ‘Race’: Hanif Kureishi’s Writing

12: Rewriting Ethnicity in Buchi Emecheta’s Fiction

13: Writing as Activism: Alice Walker

Bibliography

Index
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Alice Walker ("The Color Purple: Revisions and Redefinitions" begins on p. 67)
by Harold Bloom. 238 pgs.

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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

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Alice Walker

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Editor's Note

Introduction

Cast Out Alone/To Heal/And Re-Create/ Ourselves: Family-Based Identity in the Work of Alice Walker

Walker's Celebration of Self in Southern Generations

The Black Woman Artist as Wayward

Walker's Blues

The Color Purple: Revisions and Redefinitions

Walker's Women

Discourse of the Other: the Third Life of Grange Copeland

Black Matrilineage: the Case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston

The Changing Same: Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists

The Hoop of Language: Politics and the Restoration of Voice in Meridian

Show Me How to Do like You: Didacticism and Epistolary Form in the Color Purple

Clytemnestra's Children: Writing (out) the Mother's Anger

Writing the Subject: Reading the Color Purple

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index
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Humor, Subjectivity, Resistance: The Case of Laughter in the Color Purple, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language
by Carole Anne Taylor. 21 pgs.

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Reverend Samuel: The Missionary Minister in the Color Purple, in Griot
by Jackie Thomas. 4 pgs.

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"Preachin' the Blues:" Bessie Smith's Secular Religion and Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' in African American Review
by Thomas F. Marvin. 11 pgs.

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African Settings in Contemporary American Novels (Part II "The World according to Walker: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy")
by Dave Kuhne. 156 pgs.

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British and American novels written before World War II established popular conventions and stereotypes about Africa that have been increasingly challenged by contemporary American novels set in Africa. Kuhne's book argues that these recent American novels with African settings are largely didactic, that they convey specific lessons about Africa and Africans, and that they compare African and American cultures to evaluate and critique the two worlds. After a summary of how British and American writers have traditionally depicted Africa, Kuhne looks at such topics as contemporary American novels set in invented African nations, the African novels of African American authors, genre fiction set in Africa, and postcolonial novels with African settings.

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Recent Titles In Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies

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Preface

Chapter 1 Africa: What Place is This?

Chapter 2 Antecedents: African Settings In British and American Fiction Before World War II

Chapter 3 Filling in the Blank Space: Contemporary American Novels Set in Invented African Nations

Chapter 4 Black on Black: African-American Novels With African Settings

Chapter 5 Genre Africa

Chapter 6 Africa: Postmodern, Postcolonial, and "Other" Wise

Chapter 7 Conclusions: Africa--A Continent of Words

Bibliography

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