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A collection of essays from a feminist black author
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Womanist Prose
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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 memoi... more »
Author:
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 memoi... more »
ISBN-13: 9780156028646
ISBN-10: 0156028646
Publication Date: 5/19/2003
Pages: 418
Rating: 5
ISBN-10: 0156028646
Publication Date: 5/19/2003
Pages: 418
Rating: 5
3.9 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Gail R. (abigailsdaughter) reviewed In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose on + 201 more book reviews
Nowadays we'd call it "feminist" but in the African-American community back then it was called "womanist."
This anthology was very enlightening, and has also encouraged me to read Zora Neal Hurston's books "There Eyes Were Watching God," and "Mules and Men."
This anthology was very enlightening, and has also encouraged me to read Zora Neal Hurston's books "There Eyes Were Watching God," and "Mules and Men."
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Community & Culture >> Black & African American
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Black & African American >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Black & African American >> Walker, Alice
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Specific Demographics >> African American Studies
- Nonfiction >> Women's Studies >> Feminist Theory
