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

Other author Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Other author Appiah, Anthony.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA, ©1993.
Descriptionxiii, 368 pages ; 24 cm,.
Subjects
Walker, Alice, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.
African American women in literature.

SeriesAmistad literary series
Amistad literary series. ^A350434
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.
Contents 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.
Local noteLittle-295674--305131001844U
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index.
LCCN 92045754
ISBN1567430139 :
ISBN1567430260 (pbk.) :

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3573.A425 Z54 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold