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03333aam a2200469 a 4500 001 3692DD30EA6111E094823B976AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110929010228 008 101230s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010053347 020 $a 0230575897 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780230575899 (pbk.) 020 $a 0230575889 (hardback) 020 $a 9780230575882 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)694679195 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d NLE $d OUP $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3573.A425 $b Z77 2011 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 22 084 $a LIT000000 $a LIT004040 $a LIT000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Lauret, Maria. 245 1 $a Alice Walker / $c Maria Lauret. 250 $a 2nd ed. 260 $a Basingstoke ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2011. 300 $a ix, 290 p. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature? Alice Walker, second edition: * examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs * has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments * brings coverage of Walker's work right up to date with a new chapter on Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004), and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including Overcoming Speechlessness (2010) *_traces Walker's_lineage back to_nineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists * assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US author_as it explains_her unique place in contemporary American letters"-- Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Alice Walker's life and work: an introduction -- The third life of Grange Copeland (1970) -- Meridian (1976) -- The color purple (1982) -- Possessing the secret of joy (1992) -- The later fiction: by the light of my father's smile (1998) and now is the time to open your heart (2004) -- A writer's activism and its critics: an epilogue. 600 10 $a Walker, Alice, $d 1944- $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American women in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General $2 bisacsh 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1388/2287156/image/lgcover.9780230575899.jpg 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180201032238.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825083155.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20111108012649.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3692DD30EA6111E094823B976AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search