An in-depth analysis of Alice Walker, her writings, and the historical time period in which they were written.
Author: Mary Donnelly
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 0761447032
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 159
View: 987
An in-depth analysis of Alice Walker, her writings, and the historical time period in which they were written.Presents a collection of critical essays on the novel that analyze its structure, characters, and themes.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House
ISBN: UCSC:32106017030732
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 191
View: 738
Presents a collection of critical essays on the novel that analyze its structure, characters, and themes.Presents a collection of critical essays about Alice Walker's The color purple.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438113760
Category: African American women in literature
Page: 201
View: 288
Presents the story of Celie, a poor, black woman who overcomes a life of abuse due to the support of the females in her life. This edition also offers a compilation of criticism on the characters and themes in this novel. It also features a chronology of the author's life and notes on the contributors.Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US author as it explains her unique place in contemporary American letters.
Author: Maria Lauret
Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education
ISBN: 9781137267559
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 304
View: 709
Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple', is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature? 'Alice Walker, second edition': * examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs * has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments * brings coverage of Walker's work right up to date with a new chapter on 'Now is the Time to Open Your Heart' (2004), and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including 'Overcoming Speechlessness' (2010) * traces Walker's lineage back to nineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists * assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US author as it explains her unique place in contemporary American letters.Retrieved 2007-06-14. [7] Extract from Alice Walker, Anything We Love Can Be
Saved: A Writer's Activism ... [10] Alice Walker Biography and Notes (http://www.
biblio.com/alice-walker-125189-author) [11] Color Purple (Walker) - Author Bio ...
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Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781312301726
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“The Prodigal Daughter in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'” Notes on Contemporary
Literature. ... Alice Walker's essay, “In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens,” as a
framework from within which to discuss The Color Purple and “Everyday Use.
Author: Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9781438112756
Category:
Page: 233
View: 964
Presents a selection of criticism devoted to the fiction of African American author Alice Walker.This book contends that Walker instills metaphysical elements throughout her writing, including the Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Color Purple.
Author: Nagueyalti Warren
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781538123980
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 220
View: 589
Drawing on poetry, novels, short stories, children’s books, and essays, Nagueyalti Warren explores the spiritual aesthetic that informs Alice Walker’s creative output. This book contends that Walker instills metaphysical elements throughout her writing, including the Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Color Purple.place, the cache, the ruses to enable posting letters, and especially the letters
received in return.1 Indeed, the violations of realist ... Maria K. Mootry-Ikerionwu
opposes Walker's ideas to her "craft," "which doesn't quite carry off her vision,"
and finds the letters to God as ... Tamar Katz elegantly points out how The Color
Purple refrains from exploiting many of the most characteristic conventions of the
...
Author: Molly Hite
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9781501726316
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 186
View: 799
According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists—notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood—attempt innovations in narrative form that are more radical in their implications than the dominant modes of fictional experimentation characterized as postmodernist. In The Other Side of the Story, Hite makes the point that these innovations, which distinguish the genre she calls contemporary feminist narrative, are more radical precisely because their context is the critique of a culture and a literary tradition apprehended as profoundly masculinist.Parentage , ” 84 “ Serving with Gideon , ” 86 " Some Notes on Writing , ” 85 “
Thinking About Being Called Simple by a ... 26 , 257 Walker , Alice , 187 Walker ,
Alice : The Color Purple , 187 walkers , 43 Waltner - Toews , David , 111 Yaguchi
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Author: Jeffrey Gene Gundy
Publisher: Telford, Pa. : Cascadia Publishing House
ISBN: STANFORD:36105114168094
Category: Religion
Page: 296
View: 173
The first book-length treatment of the flowering of American Mennonite writing of the last two decades, this book combines careful scholarship with Jeff Gundy's frank, sometimes sardonic, often funny, deeply engaging commentary on Mennonite writing and culture. Gundy explores important Mennonite authors--Patrick Friesen, William Stafford, Julia Kasdorf, Jean Janzen, Keith Ratzlaff, and many others--as well as crucial issues and themes--power and authority, myths of origin and possibility, heresy and community.Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813520762
Category: Fiction
Page: 229
View: 571
Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.Rebecca Walker as cited in Bridget Bland, “Alice Walker's Estranged Daughter
Makes Startling Revelations About 'Color Purple' ... Feminist Fantasies (Dallas:
Spence, 2003), 207. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 280 noteS
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Author: Carol Swain
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 9780849949432
Category: Religion
Page: 336
View: 500
“Be the People is a courageous analysis of today’s most pressing issues, exposing the deceptions by the cultural elite and urging ‘We the People’ to restore America’s faith and values.”—Sean Hannity “There are many good books but only a few really important ones. Dr. Carol Swain’s Be the People is one of the latter. Brave, informed, candid, and thoughtful, she brings her fine academic mind to bear on the most pressing needs facing our country.”—Tony Perkins “A courageous, challenging, and controversial call to Americans of all colors to return to their Creator and to come to their Judeo-Christian senses.”—Dr. Peter A. Lillback “In Be the People Professor Carol Swain thoughtfully examines the biblical roots and religious significance of today’s most pressing issues. Professor Swain shows how to make your voice heard and how to reclaim America’s faith and values.”—Lou Dobbs An insightful analysis of the forces of deception rapidly reshaping America's morals, social policies, and culture, with a call to specific action, written by a thoughtful and courageous Christian social scientist on the front lines of today's issues. Cultural elites in the media, academia, and politics are daily deceiving millions of Americans into passively supporting policies that are detrimental to the nation and their own best interest. Although some Americans can see through the smokescreen, they feel powerless to redirect the forces inside and outside government that radically threaten cherished values and principles. Drawing on her training in political science and law, Dr. Swain thoughtfully examines the religious significance of the founding of our nation and the deceptions that have infiltrated our daily lives and now threaten traditional families, unborn children, and members of various racial and ethnic groups—as well as national sovereignty itself--and provides action points for the people of this country to make the political system more responsive. The book is divided into two sections: Forsaking what we once knew Re-embracing truth and justice in policy choices It also covers key topics such as: America's shift to moral relativism America's religious roots Abortion's fragile facade Historical and biblical views on families and children Erosion of rule of law, national security, and immigration Racial and ethnic challenges Reclaiming the future
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ISBN: UOM:39015064552691
Category: Arts
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A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.One look around the Walker's bathroom reinforces the notion that white is out
when it comes to bathroom color. Neutral shades and plum accents — purple is
Beverly's favorite color — add both warmth and personality to their master bath ...
Behind those furniture-look cabinets you'll find a television set that keeps the
Walkers up-to-date on the morning news — note the phone extension by the
shower.
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Page: 168
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Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.There ' s only one type of military unit you produce directly : the walker .
Additional types of Jovian units are obtained by morphing two or more walkers
together . In your very first ... You ' ll notice freshly cloned walkers are dark brown
, and that this color gradually changes to an intense red . Red walkers are the ...
Note that the sulphur walker turns purple with experience rather than red . USING
JOVIAN ...
Author: Bruce Harlick
Publisher: Sybex
ISBN: 078212139X
Category: Computers
Page: 318
View: 840
Conquest Earth is a real-time strategy game in the tradition of Command & Conquer and WarCraft II. This exclusive book contains inside information that is not available in any unauthorized title. This includes valuable insights into gameplay, mechanics, backstory and background information, discussions with the designers, and a behind-the-scenes peek at the concept art.... in a mode that recalls the new recalcitrant Celie in Alice Walkers The Color
Purple , repugns the megalomaniac male . ... ( s ) NOTES 1 . This is a negation of
Cyprian Ekwensi Chioma OPARA 123 Chioma Opara i10: Clothing as
iconography: ...
Author: Aduke Adebayo
Publisher:
ISBN: STANFORD:36105021351031
Category: African literature
Page: 245
View: 685
Anyway , let me start by reading to you ( my Presbyterian background ) some text
from Alice Walker . It probably sounds odd in a Scotch accent ... or maybe it
doesn't . Maybe the empowerment of women rendered with such rendering
compassion in The Color Purple , is fact , not fiction . ... We have to note that
historically men have tried fairly hard to do this — this is what the separation of
sexual life from ...
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105007115806
Category: Women
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This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo-segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement.
Author: Brian Norman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820337357
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 214
View: 743
This study of what Brian Norman terms a neo-segregation narrative tradition examines literary depictions of life under Jim Crow that were written well after the civil rights movement. From Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, to bestselling black fiction of the 1980s to a string of recent work by black and nonblack authors and artists, Jim Crow haunts the post-civil rights imagination. Norman traces a neo-segregation narrative tradition--one that developed in tandem with neo-slave narratives--by which writers return to a moment of stark de jure segregation to address contemporary concerns about national identity and the persistence of racial divides. These writers upset dominant national narratives of achieved equality, portraying what are often more elusive racial divisions in what some would call a postracial present. Norman examines works by black writers such as Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, David Bradley, Wesley Brown, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Colson Whitehead, films by Spike Lee, and other cultural works that engage in debates about gender, Black Power, blackface minstrelsy, literary history, and whiteness and ethnicity. Norman also shows that multiethnic writers such as Sherman Alexie and Tom Spanbauer use Jim Crow as a reference point, extending the tradition of William Faulkner's representations of the segregated South and John Howard Griffin's notorious account of crossing the color line from white to black in his 1961 work Black Like Me.The collection of essays in Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora contributes to this tradition by theorizing the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of ...
Author: Mae Henderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195116595
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 319
View: 405
Tropes ranging from Houston Baker's "bluesman," to Henry Louis Gates' "signifyin'" to Geneva Smitherman's "talkin' and testifyin'" to bell hooks' "talking back" to Cheryl Wall's "worrying the line" all affirm the power of sonance and sound in the African American literary tradition. The collection of essays in Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora contributes to this tradition by theorizing the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women. Looking to work by such prominent black female authors as Alice Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Zora Neal Hurston, among many others, Mae G. Henderson provides a deeply felt reflection on race and gender and their effects within the discourse of speaker and listener.Yoshinobu Hakutani traces the development of African American modernism, which initially gathered momentum with Richard Wright's literary manifesto "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in 1937.
Author: Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814210307
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 251
View: 297
Yoshinobu Hakutani traces the development of African American modernism, which initially gathered momentum with Richard Wright's literary manifesto "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in 1937. Hakutani dissects and discusses the cross-cultural influences on the then-burgeoning discipline in three stages: American dialogues, European and African cultural visions, and Asian and African American cross-cultural visions.