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Alice Walker

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: New York : Chelsea House Publishers, ©1989.
Series: Modern critical views.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Contains thirteen critical essays on Walker's work, arranged in chronological order of publication.
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Named Person: Alice Walker; Alice Walker; Alice Walker
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 1555463142 9781555463144
OCLC Number: 16718398
Description: viii, 245 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: "Cast out alone/to/heal/and recreate/ourselves" : family-based identity in the work of Alice Walker / Peter Erickson --
Walker's celebration of self in southern generations / Thadious M. Davis --
The Black woman artist as wayward / Barbara Christian --
Walker's blues / Keith Byerman --
The color purple : revisions and redefinitions / Mae G. Henderson --
Walker's women / Susan Willis --
Discourse of the other : The third life of Grange Copeland / W. Lawrence Hogue --
Black matrilineage : the case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston / Dianne F. Sadoff --
"The changing same" : generational connections and Black women novelists / Deborah E. McDowell --
The hoop of language : politics and the restoration of voice in Meridian / John F. Callahan --
"Show me how to do like you" : didacticism and epistolary form in The color purple / Tamar Katz --
Clytemnestra's children : writing (out) the mother's anger / Marianne Hirsch --
Writing the subject : reading The color purple / Bell Hooks.
Series Title: Modern critical views.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

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Contains thirteen critical essays on Walker's work, arranged in chronological order of publication.

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