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Book Synopsis Alice Walker's Womanist Fiction by : Iman Hami
Download or read book Alice Walker's Womanist Fiction written by Iman Hami and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theory formulated by Alice Walker, womanism focuses on the unification of men and women with Nature and Earth. This book explores womanism with regards to its specific concerns with African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation, and points towards its more overarching concerns with human relations and sexual freedom, as expressed in each of Walker’s seven novels. Although Walker introduced the term “womanism” in 1983, this book traces the development of the concept across her canon of fictional works. By analysing the novels written in the 1970s, this book establishes how the term came to be coined, and demonstrates how womanism went on to be further developed and complexly wrought throughout Walker’s literary career.
Book Synopsis In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by : Alice Walker
Download or read book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens written by Alice Walker and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Book Synopsis Alice Walker's Influence on Womanist Theology by : Gladys J. Willis
Download or read book Alice Walker's Influence on Womanist Theology written by Gladys J. Willis and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the idea of womanist theology as it originated in the literature of Alice Walker. Also presents the thinking of several key womanist theologians--Jacqueline Grant, Delores S. Williams, Kelley Delaine Brown-Douglass, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes and Renita J. Weems. Includes an essay offering an alternative hermeneutical approach to that of womanist theology, and further clarifies the author's perspective of racism, sexism and classism in the world and in the Black church.
Book Synopsis In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by : Alice Walker
Download or read book In Search of Our Mother's Gardens written by Alice Walker and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer. This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and how they nourish the present. Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking writers through history - from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O'Connor. She also looks back at the highs and lows of the civil rights movement, her early political development, and the place of women's traditions in art. Coining the expression 'womanist prose', these are essays that value women's culture and strength, and the handing on of the creative spark from one generation to another.
Book Synopsis In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by : Alice Walker
Download or read book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens written by Alice Walker and published by Amistad. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .
Download or read book Alice Walker written by Maria Lauret and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple', is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature? 'Alice Walker, second edition': * examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs * has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments * brings coverage of Walker's work right up to date with a new chapter on 'Now is the Time to Open Your Heart' (2004), and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including 'Overcoming Speechlessness' (2010) * traces Walker's lineage back to nineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists * assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US author as it explains her unique place in contemporary American letters.
Book Synopsis Producing a Womanist Text by : Janet J. Montelaro
Download or read book Producing a Womanist Text written by Janet J. Montelaro and published by English Literary Studies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics by : M. Harris
Download or read book Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics written by M. Harris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie L. Harris dives into the spirituality and life work of Alice Walker, literary genius and poet. Through the lens of Womanist ethics, Harris takes an inside look into the virtues and values that can be lifted from a study of Walker s non-fiction work. This work enlivens the debate in African and African American religious thought about the fluidity of spirituality and widens the conversation to encourage readers to embrace religious traditions inclusive of and beyond Christianity as the foundations for empowerment of both women and ethical values.
Book Synopsis Womanism in By the Light of My Father’s Smile by : Ratna Hasanthi Dhavaleswarapu
Download or read book Womanism in By the Light of My Father’s Smile written by Ratna Hasanthi Dhavaleswarapu and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Andhra University (Department of English, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam), language: English, abstract: Alice Walker’s 1998 novel "By the Light of My Father’s Smile" as a womanist treatise invites attention, as it showcases the modern black woman who heralds in positive changes, develops womanist consciousness, and emerges as a whole woman despite oppressive racism, sexism and classism, that plague her in both their overt and covert forms. The text is a celebration of womanist consciousness that alleviates the condition of black women from victims to victors. It is a celebration of black womanhood, and female sexuality. This paper primarily focuses on womanism as a theory and the need to inculcate womanist consciousness to overcome the tripartite struggle faced by black women. The novel chiefly revolves around the lives of four women characters namely Susannah, Magdalena, Pauline and Irene to showcase the lives of African American and coloured women who develop womanist awareness with grit and determination to overcome oppression and marginalization. This paper specifically concentrates on the role model womanist of the novel Susannah, who emerges as a successful woman despite decapitating constrains. The novel showcases that womanism as a theory when put into practice in a pragmatic way offers many solutions to the tripartite struggle faced by black women.
Download or read book Alice Walker written by Gerri Bates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-10-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world's most respected African American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, Walker began to draw on both her personal tragedies and those of her community to write poetry, essays, short stories, and novels that would tell the virtually untold stories of oppressed African and African American women, providing readers with hope and inspiring activisim. Perhaps best known for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and became a controversial film three years later, Walker has introduced and developed womanist theory, criticism and practice, and continues to champion the causes of women of color by encouraging their strength and liberation in her life and her writings. Literary works analyzed in this volume: The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy, By the Light of My Father's Smile, The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart.
Download or read book Alice Walker written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of author Alice Walker along with critical views of her work.
Book Synopsis Alice Walker - The Color Purple by : Rachel Lister
Download or read book Alice Walker - The Color Purple written by Rachel Lister and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1982, The Color Purple has polarized critics and generated controversy while delighting many readers around the world. Rachel Lister offers a clear, stimulating and wide-ranging exploration of the critical history of Alice Walker's best-selling novel, from contemporary reviews through to twenty-first-century readings. This Reader's Guide: - Opens with an overview of Walker's work - Provides a detailed consideration of the conception and reception of The Color Purple - Examines coverage of key critical issues and debates such as Walker's use of generic conventions, linguistic and narrative strategies, race, class, gender and sexual politics - Covers the reception and cultural impact of cinematic and musical adaptations, including Steven Spielberg's 1985 film and the recent Broadway production Lively and insightful, this is an indispensable volume for anyone studying, or simply interested in, Alice Walker and her most famous work.
Book Synopsis The Alice Walker Collection by : Alice Walker
Download or read book The Alice Walker Collection written by Alice Walker and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 1808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning ebook collection brings together the complete works of Alice Walker's non-fiction and includes: IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS; LIVING BY THE WORD; THE SAME RIVER TWICE; ANYTHING WE LOVE CAN BE SAVED; WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR; and THE CHICKEN CHRONICLES Whether discovering Alice Walker for the first time or finding works by her that you haven't read before, this is a must-have collection from a true heavyweight of contemporary American letters.
Book Synopsis Alice Walker's The Color Purple by : Kheven LaGrone
Download or read book Alice Walker's The Color Purple written by Kheven LaGrone and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple is a tale of personal empowerment which opens with a protagonist Celie who is at the bottom of America's social caste. A poor, black, ugly and uneducated female in the America's Jim Crow South in the first half of the 20th century, she is the victim of constant rape, violence and misogynistic verbal abuse. Celie cannot conceive of an escape from her present condition, and so she learns to be passive and unemotional. But The Color Purple eventually demonstrates how Celie learns to fight back and how she discovers her true sexuality and her unique voice. By the end of the novel, Celie is an empowered, financially-independent entrepreneur/landowner, one who speaks her mind and realizes the desirability of black femaleness while creating a safe space for herself and those she loves. Through a journey of literary criticism, Dialogue: Alice Walker's The Color Purple follows Celie's transformation from victim to hero. Each scholarly essay becomes a step of the journey that paves the way for the development of self and sexual awareness, the beginnings of religious transformation and the creation of nurturing places like home and community.
Book Synopsis The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers by : Calvin C. Hernton
Download or read book The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers written by Calvin C. Hernton and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold exploration of the controversial role that black women writers have played in the making of African-American literature from the best selling author of SEX AND RACISM IN AMERICA.
Book Synopsis No Crystal Stair by : Gloria Jean Wade Gayles
Download or read book No Crystal Stair written by Gloria Jean Wade Gayles and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloria Wade-Gayles analyzes novels by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and others. Praise for the first edition: "Highly recommended".--"Library Journal". "Finely reasoned, persuasive and passionate. . . . A definitive study. Thought-provoking and just".--"Booklist".
Book Synopsis Ain't I a Womanist, Too? by : Monica A. Coleman
Download or read book Ain't I a Womanist, Too? written by Monica A. Coleman and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third wave womanism is a new movement within religious studies with deep roots in the tradition of womanist religious thought—while also departing from it in key ways. After a helpful and orienting introduction, this volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today. The result is a lively conversation in which 'to question is not to disavow; to depart is not necessarily to reject' and where questioning and departing are indications of the productive growth and expansion of an important academic and religious movement.
