In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

A very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 397 pp.

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In her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, feminist. The theme of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, is at the heart of several of these essays: black women in relation to their families; their mothers; to each other; to black men; to white society and the world at large. In a number of other pieces, Walker discusses the writing of Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Flannery O'Connor, as well as her own work. She also looks at the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s. Throughout the volume Walker explore the theories and practices of feminists and feminism, incorporating what she calls the womanist tradition of black women. And in a vivid and courageous memoir she tells of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.

Product Info

ISBN: 0156445441

ISBN-13: 9780156445443

Publisher: Harvest Books

Year: 1984

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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