In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Womanist Prose
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1983]
Format: Ebook
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A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple .
Includes a new letter written by the author
What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color, with the poor. As a writer, Walker has always taken such people as her primary subjects, and her search for paths toward self-possession and freedom always holds out hope for the transformative power of compassion and love. Whether she's taking on nuclear proliferation, the promise and problems of the civil rights movement, or her own creative process, Walker always brings to bear a fearless determination to tell the truth.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author's personal collection.
Includes a new letter written by the author
What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color, with the poor. As a writer, Walker has always taken such people as her primary subjects, and her search for paths toward self-possession and freedom always holds out hope for the transformative power of compassion and love. Whether she's taking on nuclear proliferation, the promise and problems of the civil rights movement, or her own creative process, Walker always brings to bear a fearless determination to tell the truth.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author's personal collection.
Contents:
Saving the life that is your own : the importance of models in the artist's life -- The Black writer and the Southern experience -- "But yet and still the cotton gin kept on working--" -- A talk : convocation -- Beyond the peacock : the reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor -- The divided life of Jean Toomer -- A writer because of, not in spite of, her children -- Gifts of power : the writings of Rebecca Jackson -- Zora Neale Hurston : a cautionary tale and a partisan view -- Looking for Zora -- The civil rights movement : what good was it? -- The unglamorous by worthwhile duties of the Black revolutionary artist, or of the Black writer who simply works and writes -- The almost year -- Choice : a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Coretta King : revisited -- Choosing to stay at home : ten years after the March on Washington -- Good morning, revolution : uncollected writings of social protest -- Making the movies and the movies we want -- Lulls -- My father's country is so poor -- Recording the seasons -- In search of our mothers' gardens -- From an interview -- A letter to the editor of Ms. -- Breaking chains and encouraging life -- If the present looks like the past, what does the future look like? -- Looking to the side, and back -- To The Black scholar -- Brothers and sisters -- Silver writes -- Only justice can stop a curse -- Nuclear madness : what you can do -- To the editors of Ms. magazine -- Writing The color purple -- One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s) -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self.
Subjects:
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
Feminism -- United States.
African American women.
Autores americanos -- Siglo XX -- Biografía.
Mujeres -- Derechos de la mujer.
Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle -- Biographies.
Féminisme.
Noires américaines.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American authors -- Biography.
Feminism -- United States.
African American women.
Autores americanos -- Siglo XX -- Biografía.
Mujeres -- Derechos de la mujer.
Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle -- Biographies.
Féminisme.
Noires américaines.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Target Audience: 1160L
ISBN:
9781453224069
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