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An edition of In Search of Our Mother's Garden (1983)

In search of our mothers' gardens

womanist prose

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Walker's essays and articles written between 1966 and 1982 discuss the concept and influence of art and the artist's life, criticisms of authors such as Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston, studies in the civil rights movement and feminist movement, and her own ideas while writing her book "The Color Purple."

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Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
397

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Biography American Authors Feminism African American women African American authors Afro-American women African American women authors Mujeres Biographies Écrivains américains Autores americanos Noires américaines Derechos de la mujer Féminisme Biografía American essays Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Frauenliteratur Black women Walker, alice, 1944- Authors, american Essays (single author) Womanism

People

Alice Walker (1944-)

Places

United States

Times

20th century Siglo XX 20e siècle

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Cover of: In search of our mothers' gardens
In search of our mothers' gardens: womanist prose
2004, Harcourt
in English
Cover of: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
May 19, 2003, Harvest Books
in English
Cover of: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
October 19, 1984, Harvest Books
in English
Cover of: In search of our mothers' gardens
In search of our mothers' gardens: womanist prose
1984, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - 1st Harvest ed.
Cover of: In Search of Our Mother's Garden
In Search of Our Mother's Garden
1983, Harcourt Brace & Company
in English
Cover of: In search of our mothers' gardens
In search of our mothers' gardens: womanist prose
1983, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-397).

Published in
Orlando
Series
A Harvest book
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5409
Library of Congress
PS3573.A425 Z467 2004, PS3573.A425Z467 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 397 p. ;
Number of pages
397

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3321705M
Internet Archive
insearchofourmot00walk_2
ISBN 10
0156028646
LCCN
2004274774
OCLC/WorldCat
55112154
LibraryThing
76733
Wikidata
Q126547632
Goodreads
60943

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL273646W

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Work Description

In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.

Excerpts

There is a letter Vincent Van Gogh wrote to Emile Bernard that is very meaningful to me.
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