| Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism Contributor(s): Walker, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345407962 ISBN-13: 9780345407962 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, and gender communication. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice to Bill Clinton. Here is a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 97097210 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, and gender communication. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice to Bill Clinton. Here is a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life. |