| Description |
xiii, 368 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Amistad literary series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index. |
| Contents |
Third life of Grange Copeland (1970) / Josephine Hendin, Robert Coles -- Meridan (1976) / Marge Piercy, Greil Marcus -- Color purple (1982) / Mel Watkins, Dinitia Smith -- Temple of my familiar (1989) / Ursula K. Le Guin, J. M. Coetzee / Possessing the secret of joy (1992) / Charles R. Larson, Janette Turner Hospital, Tina McElroy Ansa -- Essay on Alice Walker / Mary Helen Washington -- Novels for everyday use / Barbara Christian -- History and genealogy in Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland and Meridian / Elliot Butler-Evans -- Dynamics of enclosure / Theodore O. Mason, Jr. -- Walker : the centering self / Michael Cooke -- Reading the body : Meridan and the archeology of self / Alan Nadel -- Self in bloom : Walker's Meridian / Deborah E. McDowell -- Poetry celebrating life / Hanna Nowak -- Walker : the achievement of the short fiction / Alice Hall Petry -- Race, gender, and nation in The color purple / Lauren Berlant -- Color me Zora / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Lettered bodies and corporeal texts / Wendy Wall -- Poetry as preface to fiction / Thadious Davis. |
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Reading and resistance : The color purple / Bell Hooks -- Rewriting the heroine's story in The color purple / Linda Abbandonato -- Patches : quilts and community in Alice Walker's "everyday use" / Houston A. Baker, Jr., Charlotte Pierce-Baker. |
| Subject |
Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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African American women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Gates, Henry Louis.
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Appiah, Anthony.
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| ISBN |
1567430260 (pbk.) : $14.95 |
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1567430139 : $24.95 |
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