An edition of Everyday use (1994)

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An edition of Everyday use (1994)

Everyday use

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Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington. - Back cover.

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Language
English
Pages
229

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Everyday use
1994, Rutgers University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Barbara T. Christian
Chronology
Everyday use / Alice Walker
In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker
For my sister Molly who in the Fifties / Alice Walker
Interview with Alice Walker / John O'Brien
Critical essays.
An essay on Alice Walker / Mary Helen Washington
Alice Walker's celebration of self in Southern generations / Thadious M. Davis
Alice Walker : the black woman artist as wayward / Barbara T. Christian
Patches : quilts and community in Alice Walker's "Everyday use" / Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Charlotte Pierce-Baker
Sisters' choices: quilting aesthetics in contemporary African-American women's fiction / Margot Anne Kelley
Common threads / Elaine Showalter

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).

Published in
New Brunswick, N.J
Series
Women writers
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1994

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.A425 E9 1994, PS3573.A425E9 1994

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
vi, 229 p.
Number of pages
229
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1424461M
ISBN 10
0813520754, 0813520762
ISBN 13
9780813520759, 9780813520766
LCCN
93035018
OCLC/WorldCat
29028043
Library Thing
3459902
Goodreads
3441832
60941

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