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In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose / by Alice Walker.
Author
Walker, Alice, 1944-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1983]
Description
xviii, 397 pages ; 22 cm
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PS3573.A425 Z467 1983
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Subject(s)
Authors, American
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20th century
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Biography
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African American women authors
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Biography
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Feminism
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United States
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American essays
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20th century
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African American women
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Feminism
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African American authors
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Biography
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Walker, Alice 1944-
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Homosaurus term(s)
Feminism
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Essays
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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collective biographies
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Series
Harvest book
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Summary note
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
Notes
"A Harvest/HBJ book".
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
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 but 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 the 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.
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ISBN
0151445257 ((hardcover))
9780151445257 ((hardcover))
0156445441
9780156445443
0156028646
9780156028646
LCCN
83008584
OCLC
9557895
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