In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose / by Alice Walker.

Author
Walker, Alice, 1944- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, ©1983.
Description
xviii, 397 pages ; 20 cm

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Firestone Library - African American Studies Reading Room PS3573.A425 Z467 1984 Browse related items Request

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    Series
    Harvest/HBJ bk. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Essays on the role of women, especially black women, in contemporary society.
    Notes
    "First Harvest/HBJ edition 1984."
    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 moves 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.
    ISBN
    • 0156445441
    • 9780156445443
    LCCN
    83008584
    OCLC
    12124888
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