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Highlights the essential elements of Alice Walker's prolific imagination by analyzing both her novels and her poems.

Highlights the elements of Alice Walker's imagination by analyzing both her novels and her poems.

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Highlights the essential elements of Alice Walker's prolific imagination by analyzing both her novels and her poems.

Highlights the elements of Alice Walker's imagination by analyzing both her novels and her poems.

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Alice Walker is one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century American literature. This collection of essays represents a dispassionate scholarly effort to comprehend the essential elements of her prolific imagination, which celebrates women by chronicling their troubled journey from silence to self-expression and from pain to resistance. The essays fall largely into three main groups, focusing on Walker's most famous and controversial novel, The Color Purple, on her poetry, which has for too long met with critical neglect, and on her ecofeminist novel, The Temple of My Familiar.

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Critic Reviews

“"This scholarly college-level survey of Alice Walker's works is recommended reading for any who want an assessment of her contributions....An excellent, involving critical collection for modern college-level students of her works."- The Bookwatch”

?Dieke has made a valuable contribution to the growing body of criticism on African American literature.?-Choice
?This scholarly college-level survey of Alice Walker's works is recommended reading for any who want an assessment of her contributions....An excellent, involving critical collection for modern college-level students of her works.?-The Bookwatch
"Dieke has made a valuable contribution to the growing body of criticism on African American literature."-Choice
"This scholarly college-level survey of Alice Walker's works is recommended reading for any who want an assessment of her contributions....An excellent, involving critical collection for modern college-level students of her works."-The Bookwatch

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About the Author

IKENNA DIEKE is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Primordial Image: African, Afro-American, and Caribbean Mythopoetic Text (1993) and of several articles in scholarly journals such as African American Review and The New Review.

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Alice Walker is one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century American literature. This collection of essays represents a dispassionate scholarly effort to comprehend the essential elements of her prolific imagination, which celebrates women by chronicling their troubled journey from silence to self-expression and from pain to resistance. The essays fall largely into three main groups, focusing on Walker's most famous and controversial novel, The Color Purple , on her poetry, which has for too long met with critical neglect, and on her ecofeminist novel, The Temple of My Familiar .

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Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | Praeger Publishers Inc
Published
30th November 1999
Pages
240
ISBN
9780313300127

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