Alice Walker''s Metaphysics - Literature of Spirit

Drawing on poetry, novels, short stories, children's books, and essays, Nagueyalti Warren explores the spiritual aesthetic that informs Alice Walker's creative output. This book contends that Walker instills metaphysical elements throughout her writing, including the Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Color Purple.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Dark Beginnings
Chapter 2: Spirit in the Dark
Chapter 3: What we Love, We Save
Chapter 4: Amazing Grace
Chapter 5: Dear God
Chapter 6: Entering the Temple
Chapter 7: Sexual Healing
Chapter 8: Opening to Spirit
Chapter 9: When the Other Dancer is the Self
Chapter 10: Mystic Walker
Selected References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Nagueyalti Warren, PhD,is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University, where she has taught literature and a seminar on the works of Alice Walker for thirty years. She is the editor of Temba Tupu (Walking Naked): Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait (2005) and Critical Insights: Alice Walker (2012). In addition to works of poetry—including Margaret, A Persona Poem (2008)—Warren is the author of W. E. B. Du Bois: Grandfather of Black Studies (2011).

Product details

• Authors: Nagueyalti Warren, Warren Nagueyalti
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781538123973
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2397-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people