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In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose, Alice Walker

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Summary
Walker's essays and articles written between 1966 and 1982 discuss the concept and influence of art and the artist's life, criticisms of authors such as Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston, studies in the civil rights movement and feminist movement, and her own ideas while writing her book "The Color Purple."
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xviii, 397 pages
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 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
  • Beauty : when the other dancer is the self
  • One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s)
Isbn
9780156028646
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Instance
Label
In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
Title
In search of our mothers' gardens
Title remainder
womanist prose
Statement of responsibility
Alice Walker
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Walker's essays and articles written between 1966 and 1982 discuss the concept and influence of art and the artist's life, criticisms of authors such as Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston, studies in the civil rights movement and feminist movement, and her own ideas while writing her book "The Color Purple."
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Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1944-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Walker, Alice
Dewey number
818/.5409
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3573.A425
LC item number
Z467 2004
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
A Harvest book
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Walker, Alice
  • Authors, American
  • African American women authors
  • African American authors
  • Feminism
  • American essays
Label
In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose, Alice Walker
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Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-397)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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 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 -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self -- One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s)
Control code
ocm55112154
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
xviii, 397 pages
Isbn
9780156028646
Lccn
2004274774
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)55112154
Label
In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose, Alice Walker
Link
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-397)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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 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 -- Beauty : when the other dancer is the self -- One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s)
Control code
ocm55112154
Dimensions
21 cm.
Extent
xviii, 397 pages
Isbn
9780156028646
Lccn
2004274774
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)55112154

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