Critical essays on Alice Walker

Author(s)

• Dieke, Ikenna

Bibliographic Information

Critical essays on Alice Walker

edited by Ikenna Dieke

（Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 189）

Greenwood Press, 1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Selected bibliography: p. [213]-218

Each chapter has a list of works cited

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Alice Walker is one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century American literature. This collection of essays represents a dispassionate scholarly effort to comprehend the essential elements of her prolific imagination, which celebrates women by chronicling their troubled journey from silence to self-expression and from pain to resistance. The essays fall largely into three main groups, focusing on Walker's most famous and controversial novel, The Color Purple, on her poetry, which has for too long met with critical neglect, and on her ecofeminist novel, The Temple of My Familiar.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Alice Walker, Pygmalion in Reverse by Ikenna Dieke Occupational Hazard: Loss of Historical Context in Twentieth-Century Feminist Readings, and a New Reading of the Heroine's Story in Alice Walker's THE COLOR PURPLE by Dror Abend-David Heritage and Deracination in Walker's "Everyday Use" by David Cowart Alice Walker's Womanist Magic: The Conjure Woman as Rhetor by Catherine A. Colton When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich by Margaret D. Bauer Creating Generations: The Relationship between Celie and Shug in Alice Walker's THE COLOR PURPLE by E. Ellen Barker Alice Walker and the "Man Question" by Pia Thielmann Revolutionary Stanzas: The Civil and Human Rights Poetry of Alice Walker by Jefrey L. Coleman THE COLOR PURPLE: An Existential Novel by Marc-A. Christophe Alice Walker's Redemptive Art by Felipe Smith Walker's THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR: Womanist as Monistic Idealist by Ikenna Dieke Alice Walker's American Quilt: THE COLOR PURPLE and American Literary Tradition by Priscilla Leder Who Touches This Touches a Woman: The Naked Self in Alice Walker by Ruth D. Weston "Nothing Can Be Sole or Whole That Has Not Been Rent": Fragmentation in the QUILT and THE COLOR PURPLE by Judy Elsley A Matter of Focus: Men in the Margins of Alice Walker's Fiction by Erna Kelly "What She Got to Sing About?": Comedy and THE COLOR PURPLE by Priscilla L. Walton Alice Walker: Poesy and the Earthling Psyche by Ikenna Dieke Appendix: Chronology Selected Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BA45502832
• ISBN:
  • 0313300127
• LCCN: 98037719
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn
• Pages/Volumes: x, 226 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3573.A425
  • DC21 : 813/.54
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Afro-Americans in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00109626