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by Alice Walker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New Ed edition (20 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753819600
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753819609
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 139,136 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and how they nourish the present. Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking writers through history - from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O'Connor. She also looks back at the highs and lows of the civil rights movement, her early political development, and the place of women's traditions in art. Coining the expression 'womanist prose', these are essays that value women's culture and strength, and the handing on of the creative spark from one generation to another.


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Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including Meridian, By the Light of My Father's Smile and The Third Life of Grange Copeland.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly articulate, meaningful and profound, 20 May 2007
By J. Roberts "Jinny" (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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Put simply, Alice Walker has inspired me more than any writer I have ever read. Her writing is resonant, lively, crisp, emotional, vibrant, original, witty and relevant. Even several decades after the original publication of this collection of essays, articles and letters this is relevant.

The topics covered include racism, sexism, the civil rights movement, Cuba, literature and nature. Alice Walker's voice is authentic and affecting and the emotion in every essay is so real that I was frequently moved to tears and very affected. The chapter 'From An Interview' is without a doubt the saddest thing I have ever read in my life. I enjoyed every page of this book, it was never tedious or difficult to read.

Yet Alice Walker is not as well-known as she should be. For starters, her books are ignored in the curriculum, in favour of privileged white men, a fact which she is no doubt painfully aware of. But this criminal neglect is actually extenisvely addressed in this book, as Alice laments over the great many female authors, mainly black, who have been ignored by elitist, dangerous snobs. I am personally going to make it my goal to pressure MP's with regard to including more talented female authors in the curriculum, especially poor or black ones, since they have been pretty much ignored altogether.

Words really cannot do this book justice. It is relevant, challenging and thought-provoking, and utterly vital for illustrating that there is a big wide world out there that exists outside of middle America, and the West's white preoccupations. This book will open up your mind and make you aware of things you didn't even know existed. Buy it and read the words of a profoundly insightful, sensitive, deep thinker.
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5.0 out of 5 stars more wonderful thoughts from Walker, 31 May 2004
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This review is from: In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose (Women's Press Classics) (Paperback)
I regard Alice Walker as a genious of modern literature from the amazing 'The Color Purple' to this absorbing piece of womanist writing. Walker's love for black woman and for humanity in general is apparent from the outset. Even as a white male I find so much to value learn from the principles of Walker's own school of thought; womanism.

Her engaging argument makes use of examples from her own life and from more generic experiences applicable to all of us. For anyone looking to contribute in modern society I recommend this book. Please read it.

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