Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-285) and index.
Contents:
Resources : Chronology of Alice Walker's Life; Works by Alice Walker; Bibliography. Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper -- Alice Walker's essays, speeches, and conversations / Nagueyalti Warren -- Biography of Alice Walker / Sally Wolff -- Alice Walker : critical reception / Lillie P. Howard -- Critical lens : five critics on Alice Walker / Napolita Hooper-Simanga -- Cultural and historical context / Carmen R. Gillespie -- Pushing gender scripts and color lines in Alice Walker's The color purple and Sapphire's push / Ciara Miller -- "But where was the man in me" Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Meridian and We are the ones we have been waiting for : Alice Walker's evolving vision of the spiritual warrior / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Looking for God : Alice Walker's The color purple and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Paula C. Barnes -- Walker's womanist agenda / Brenda J. Young -- Spiritual colonialism / Deborah Plant -- The myopic eye in Alice Walker's "The flowers" / Antoinette Brim -- Sexuality and the healing of the self: The color purple, Possessing the secret of joy, and By the light of my father's smile / Karla Kovalova -- Living spaces for learning in Alice Walker's The temple of my familiar / Toni Wynn -- Participant, witness, activist: Alice Walker's novels in historical context / Donna Winchell -- Possessing the secret of metaphor: Alice Walker's poetics of self-recovery / Opal Moore -- Euterpe's daughter: ecological/political/sociological poetics of Alice Walker / Gerri Bates -- Alice Walker's essays, speeches, and conversations / Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper -- Resources : Chronology of Alice Walker's Life; Works by Alice Walker; Bibliography.
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