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Alice Walker : critical perspectives past and present

Title: Alice Walker : critical perspectives past and present / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah.
Publication: New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA, c1993.

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Description

xiii, 368 p.; 24 cm

Series Statement

Amistad literary series

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

The third life of Grange Copeland (1970) / Josephine Hendin & Robert Coles -- Meridan (1976) / Marge Piercy & Greil Marcus -- The color purple (1982) / Mel Watkins & Dinitia Smith -- The temple of my familiar (1989) / Ursula K. Le Guin & J.M. Coetzee / Possessing the secret of joy (1992) / Charles R. Larson , Janette Turner Hospital & Tina McElroy Ansa -- An essay on Alice Walker / Mary Helen Washington -- Novels for everyday use / Barbara Christian -- History and genealogy in Walker's the third life of Grange Copeland and meridian / Elliot Butler-Evans -- The dynamics of enclosure / Theodore O. Mason, Jr. -- Walker: the centering self / Michael Cooke -- Reading the body: meridan and the archeology of self / Alan Nadel -- The self in bloom: Walker's meridian / Deborah E. McDowell -- Poetry celebrating life / Hanna Nowak -- Walker: the achievement of the short fiction / Alice Hall Petry -- Race, gender, and nation in the color purple / Lauren Berlant -- Color me Zora / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Lettered bodies and corporeal texts / Wendy Wall -- Poetry as preface to fiction / Thadious Davis.
Reading and resistance: the color purple / Bell Hooks -- Rewriting the heroine's story in the color purple / Linda Abbandonato -- Patches: quilts and community in Alice Walker's "everyday use" / Houston A. Baker, Jr. & Charlotte Pierce-Baker.

Call Number

Sc E 95-930

ISBN

LCCN

92045754

OCLC

27225186

Title

Alice Walker : critical perspectives past and present / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah.

Imprint

New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA, c1993.

Series

Amistad literary series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index.

Added Author

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

Appiah, Anthony.

Research Call Number

Sc E 95-930