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100	1		_aWalker, Alice
245	1	0	_aIn search of our mothers' gardens : _bwomanist prose / _cAlice Walker.
260			_aLondon : _bThe Women's Press, _c1984
300			_axviii, 397 p.
500			_aOriginally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
505			_aSaving the life that is your own: the importance of models in the artist's life-- The black writer and the southern experience-- "But yet and still the cotton gin kept on working..."-- A talk: convocation-- Beyond the peacock: the reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor-- The divided life of Jean Toomer-- A writer because of, not in spite of, her children-- Gifts of power: the writings of Rebecca Jackson--Zora Neal Hurston: a cautionary tale and a partisan view-- Looking for Zora-- The civil rights movement: what good was it?-- The unglamorous but worthwhile duties of the black revolutionary artist, or of the black writer who simple works and writes-- The almost year-- Choice: a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-- Coretta King: revisited-- Choosing to stay at home: ten years after the March on Washington-- Good morning, revolution: uncollected writings of social protest-- Making the moves and the movies we want-- Lulls-- My father's country is the poor-- Recording the seasons-- In search of our mother's gardens-- From an interview-- A letter to the editor of Ms-- Breaking chains and encouraging life-- If the present looks like the past, what does the future look like?-- Looking to the side, and back-- To 'the black scholar'-- Brothers and sisters-- Silver writes-- Only justice can stop a curse-- Nuclear madness: what can you do-- To the editors of Ms. magazine-- Writing 'The colour purple'-- One child of one's own: a meaningful digression within the work(s)-- Beauty: when the other dancer is the self.
520			_aIn 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. Alice Walker (b. 1944), one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award. Her other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. In her public life, Walker has worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.
650			_aFeminism _96163
650			_aAmerican essays 20th century
650			_aAfrican American women
650			_aBlack women.
650			_aWomen's writing
650			_aWomanism
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