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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Womanist Prose
Author: Alice Walker
As a woman, writer, mother, and feminist, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the “womanist” tradition of African American women. — Saving 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 ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780156445443
ISBN-10: 0156445441
Publication Date: 10/19/1984
Pages: 420
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3.9 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A collection of essays from a feminist black author
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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."


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