| In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose Contributor(s): Walker, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156028646 ISBN-13: 9780156028646 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Essays - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 83008584 |
| Lexile Measure: 1160 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (0.70 lbs) 397 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Alice: - ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award. |