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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings." -- Kirkus Reviews
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
Book Details
- Publisher: Amistad Press
- Publish Date: May 17th, 2004
- Pages: 397
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.20in - 1.10in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780156028646
- Recommended age: 14-UP
- Categories: • Essays• Feminism & Feminist Theory• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl
About the Author
Walker, Alice: - ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.
Praise for this book
"One of the healthiest collections of essays I have come across in a long time . . . What [Walker] says about the black woman she says from the depths of oppression. What is said from the depths of oppression illuminates all other oppressions." -- New Statesman
"Reflects not only the ideas but a life that has . . . breathed color, sound, and soul into fiction and poetry--and into our lives as well." -- San Francisco Chronicle