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by: Alice Walker
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5409
EAN: 9780156028646
ISBN: 0156028646
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 418
Publication Date: May 19, 2003
Publisher: Harvest Books
Sales Rank: 86893
Studio: Harvest Books
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Product Description:
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a
black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging
from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about
other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the
antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring
childhood injury and her daughter’s healing words.
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Rating: - A World Of Differnts Meanings
I often disagree with some things a writer chooses to share but those are small things that prove your thinking about what you've read and not just scanned the material. The one that stands out the most after 20 years is the piece on Cuba. Each piece however took me somewhere beyond my own thoughts. It is more than well written, it is thought provoking and at times peaceful.
Rating: - Alice Walker is allways wonderful
and this is not exception. Her honesty, her heart and her story telling is excellent as ever. May she bless us with many, many more stories.
Rating: - amazing
Alice Walker is insightful and thorough in her examination of literature. I especially enjoy her piece about Flannery O'Connor.
Rating: - A must read for Empowered women!
This book helped me gain my voice. I love it so much -- I have two copies of it and I would still not be willing to loan one out. Alice Walker is a powerful visual writer and a Gift to the Womanist Academy!
Rating: - The Loss of Black Creativity Due To Slavery
In her essay concerning post-Reconstruction African-American women, Alice Walker seeks to put a human face on what Americans may otherwise only remember as an unfortunate scar on our glorious history. She asks, "Who were the Saints? These crazy, loony, pitiful women?" And in answering herself, she replies in repetition, "our mothers and grandmothers." These are the human faces to which she has attributed all that is contemporary Black America.
"Moving to music not yet written," Walker's ... Read More
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