In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens - Womanist Prose

Zusatztext PRAISE FOR IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS’GARDENS “Reflects not only the ideas but a life that has . . . breathed color, sound, and soul into fiction and poetry—and into our lives as well.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Informationen zum Autor ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award. Klappentext Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings." ? Kirkus Reviews In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words. Zusammenfassung Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple , Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings." — Kirkus Reviews In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter’s healing words.

Product details

• Authors: Walker Alice Walker, Alice Walker
• Publisher: Amistad
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2004
• EAN: 9780156028646
• ISBN: 978-0-15-602864-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: WOMEN'S STUDIES, LITERATURE: CULTURAL STUDIES, LITERATURE: ESSAYS, COMPOSITION & WRITING: READERS AND ANTHOLOGIES