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Alice Walker's The color purple

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House, ©2000.
Series: Modern critical interpretations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Presents critical essays on Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.
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Named Person: Alice Walker; Alice Walker
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 079105666X 9780791056660
OCLC Number: 42652674
Description: vii, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Race, gender, and nation in The color purple / Lauren Berlant --
Color me Zora: Alice Walker's (re) writing of the speakerly text / Henry Louis Gates Jr. --
Writing the subject: reading The color purple / bell hooks --
"Show me how to do like you": didacticism and the epistolary form in The color purple / Tamar Katz --
"Trying to do without God": the revision of epistolary address in The color purple / Carolyn Williams --
Romance, marginality, matrilineage: The color purple / Molly Hite --
With ears to hear and eyes to see: Alice Walker's parable The color purple / Diane Gabrielsen Scholl --
The color purple: a study of Walker's womanist gospel / Tuzyline Jita Allan --
Race and domesticity in The color purple / Linda Selzer --
Generational connections and Black women novelists - Iola Leroy and The color purple / Deborah E. McDowell --
"Somebody I can talk to": Teaching feminism through The color purple / Carla Kaplan --
Alice Walker's The color purple / Yvonne Johnson.
Series Title: Modern critical interpretations.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Abstract:

Presents critical essays on Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

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