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Informationen zum Autor Deborah G. Plant is associate professor of Africana studies at University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. She is editor of Praeger's "The Inside Light": New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston and author of Praeger's Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit . Klappentext This biography explores Alice Walker's life experiences and her lifework in context of her philosophical thought, and celebrates the author's creative genius and heroism.Born in Eatonton, GA, in 1944, a daughter of sharecroppers, Alice Walker has lived a remarkable and courageous life, and she continues to do so as an elder. Taking inspiration from her great-great-great-great grandmother who lived enslaved in the American South and died at age 125, Walker's activism stems from a philosophy that embraces all life and expresses itself through courageous truth-telling, a resolute stand for freedom, and radical love. Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times offers a full examination of the intellectual underpinnings of Walker's life and her oeuvre from a philosophical standpoint. This philosophical biography draws a portrait of the author that reveals the nuances of her character, clarifies the relationship between her life experiences and her lifework, and the philosophical thought that underlies both. This work will be essential reading to those interested in Black studies, women's studies, the Civil Rights and Black Arts movements, peace studies, the American South, philosophy, psychology, sociology, spirituality and New Age literature, and ecology and eco-feminism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword by Joanne M. Braxton Acknowledgments Introduction Section I. Earth Poem: "There Are Bad Women Walking on the Planet Now" by Phyllis McEwen One I Am the Earth.. Two For Six Years I Do Not Look Up Three Everything Changed Four A Spelman Girl Five On My Own Terms Section II. Fire Poem: "A Message to Younger Sisters: Be Whole" by Phyllis McEwen Six I Would Only Be the Philosopher Seven Changing the World Eight Meridian : Coming of Age in Mississippi Nine Thought at the Meridian Ten Truth Teller, Freedom Writer Section III. Air Poem: "The Clitoris Knows When and How" by Phyllis McEwen Eleven Apologia: Honoring the Difficult Twelve Helped Are Those Who Know Thirteen A Woman of One's Own: Womanist Philosophy and Revitalization of the Sovereign Feminine Fourteen The Sacred Masculine Fifteen The Gnostic Gospel of My Father's Smile Section IV. Water Poem: "My Body Is a Farm" (For My Son) by Phyllis McEwen Sixteen Mbele Aché Seventeen Sub Rosa No Longer: Our Daughters Have Mothers Eighteen Absolute Goodness Nineteen Why War Is Never a Good Idea Twenty We Are the Ones Section V. Aether Poem: "Little Girls" by Phyllis McEwen Twenty-One The Cathedral of the Future Twenty-Two Caritas: The Greatest of These Twenty-Three Ouroboros Twenty-Four "Alice" Is Old Greek for Truth Twenty-Five Lapis Philosophorum Notes Index ...
