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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

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A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple.

Includes a new letter written by the author
  What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color, with the poor. As a writer, Walker has always taken such people as her primary subjects, and her search for paths toward self-possession and freedom always holds out hope for the transformative power of compassion and love. Whether she’s taking on nuclear proliferation, the promise and problems of the civil rights movement, or her own creative process, Walker always brings to bear a fearless determination to tell the truth.  
  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection. 
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 22, 2011
ISBN9781453224069
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, five children’s books, and several volumes of essays and poetry. She has received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award, and has been honored with the O. Henry Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and received the Lennon Ono Peace Award. Her work has been published in forty languages worldwide.

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    i have yet to read a book by alice walker that i did not love... her ability with writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, is astounding and i enjoyed these essays as much as i have enjoyed her fiction. i've also been prompted to look into reading some of the black authors she mentions and recommends in this book.
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    read this after reading Their Eyes Were Watching God to get a sense of who Zora Neale Hurston was and where she stood in the general sense of things. i found alice walker's first essay on having a literary role model illuminating.

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