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000437850 1001_ $$aLauret, Maria.
000437850 24510 $$aAlice Walker /$$cMaria Lauret.
000437850 250__ $$a2nd ed.
000437850 260__ $$aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$$aNew York :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c2011.
000437850 300__ $$aix, 290 p. ;$$c23 cm.
000437850 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000437850 5050_ $$aAlice Walker's life and work: an introduction -- The third life of Grange Copeland (1970) -- Meridian (1976) -- The color purple (1982) -- Possessing the secret of joy (1992) -- The later fiction: by the light of my father's smile (1998) and now is the time to open your heart (2004) -- A writer's activism and its critics: an epilogue.
000437850 520__ $$a"Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature? Alice Walker, second edition: * examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs * has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments * brings coverage of Walker's work right up to date with a new chapter on Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004), and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including Overcoming Speechlessness (2010) *_traces Walker's_lineage back to_nineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists * assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US author_as it explains_her unique place in contemporary American letters"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000437850 60010 $$aWalker, Alice,$$d1944-$$xCriticism and interpretation.
000437850 650_0 $$aWomen and literature$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000437850 650_0 $$aAfrican American women in literature.
000437850 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans in literature.
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