In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Womanist Prose
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 397 pages ; 20 cm
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings." -- Kirkus Reviews
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
Subjects:
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Feminism.
African American women.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Feminism.
African American women.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Target Audience: 1160L
ISBN:
0156028646
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LITERATURE Wal | Blythewood | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/7/2024) |
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"First Harvest/HBJ edition 1984."
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.