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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


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    Alice Walker » Read Now

    by Harold Bloom. 238 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    -- 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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    Critical Essays on Alice Walker » Read Now

    by Ikenna Dieke. 226 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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...
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    "You Just Can't Keep a Good Woman Down": Alice Walker Sings the Blues, in African American Review » Read Now

    by Maria V. Johnson. 16 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Just Cant Keep a Good Woman Down": Alice Walker sings the blues. by Maria...up in some other town (Miller) Alice Walker has been profoundly influenced...pieces. In this...
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    Alice Walker's The Color Purple (literary criticism) » Read Now

    by Harold Bloom. 240 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    -- 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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    Literature and Film as Modern Mythology (Chap. 6 "A Return to Matriarchy: The Color Purple by Alice Walker") » Read Now

    by William K. Ferrell. 218 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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...
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    Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (Chap. 18 "Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic: On Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy" and Chap. 19 "Alice Walker, Activist: Matron of Forward") » Read Now

    by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen. 336 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad...
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    Alice Walker's Vision of the South in The Third Life of Grange Copeland, in African American Review » Read Now

    by Robert James Butler. 10 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Alice Walkers vision of the South in The Third Life...Writer and the Southern Experience," Alice Walker defines her response to an South in a...home if she is to continue...
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    Jean Toomer and Okot p'Bitek in Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," in MELUS » Read Now

    by Matthew A. Fike. 20 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Jean Toomer and Okot pBitek in Alice Walkers "In Search of Our Mothers Gardens...Search of Our Mothers Gardens," Alice Walker hopes to fulfill a twofold purpose...1971...
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    Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction (Chap. 5 "The Emergent Woman's Family in The Color Purple") » Read Now

    by Horst S. Daemmrich, Desmond F. McCarthy. 176 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Purple , copyright c 1982 by Alice Walker. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt...Purple , copyright c 1982 by Alice Walker. Reprinted by permission of The...writers: John...
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    In Spite of It All: A Reading of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," in African American Review » Read Now

    by Sam Whitsitt. 32 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Spite of It All: A Reading of Alice Walkers "Everyday Use" by Sam...of stories In Love and Trouble, Alice Walkers short story "Everyday Use" has...Patches: Quilts and...
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    Race, Gender, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker » Read Now

    by Elliott Butler-Evans. 227 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker ELLIOTT BUTLER-EVANS TEMPLE...Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker / Elliott ButlerEvans. p. cm...Political and...
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    Contemporary Fiction (Chap. 13 "Writing as Activism: Alice Walker") » Read Now

    by Jago Morrison. 262 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    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...
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    The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Chap. 7 "Color Me Zora: Alice Walker's (Re) Writing of the Speakerly Text" » Read Now

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 320 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the...
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    Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Alice Walker" begins on p. 458) » Read Now

    by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 530 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This reference book offers lively, concise, and current information about the lives and imaginative works of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Each of the alphabetically...
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    Alice Malsenior Walker: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968-1986 » Read Now

    by Darnell D. Pratt, Louis H. Pratt. 170 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...ALICE MALSENIOR WALKER An Annotated Bibliography: 1968-1986...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Walker, Alice, 1944- --Bibliography. I. Pratt...or researcher intent on...

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