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Alice Walker : critical perspectives past and present
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- Creator
- edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA, [1993]
- ©1993
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- xiii, 368 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781567430134, 1567430139, 9781567430264, 1567430260
- OCLC
- ocm27225186
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356) and index.
- The third life of Grange Copeland (1970) / Josephine Hendin & Robert Coles -- Meridan (1976) / Marge Piercy & Greil Marcus -- The color purple (1982) / Mel Watkins & Dinitia Smith -- The 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 -- An essay on Alice Walker / Mary Helen Washington -- Novels foreveryday use / Barbara Christian -- History and genealogy in Walker's the third life of Grange Copeland and meridian / Elliot Butler-Evans -- The dynamics of enclosure / Theodore O. Mason, Jr. -- Walker: the centering self / Michael Cooke -- Reading the body: meridan and the archeology of self / Alan Nadel -- The 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
- 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