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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 »still the cotton gin kept on working" --
A talk: convocation --
Beyond the peacock: the reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor --
The divided life of Jean Toomer --
A writer because of, not in spite of, her children --
"Gifts of Power: the Writings of Rebecca Jackson" --
Zora Neale Hurston: a cautionary tale and a partisan view --
Looking for Zora --
The Civil Rights movement: what good was it? --
The unglamorous but worthwhile duties of the Black revolutionary artist, or of the Black writer who simply works and writes --
"The Almost Year" --
Choice: a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr --
Coretta King: revisited --
Choosing to stay at home: ten years after the March on Washington --
"Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest" --
Making the movies and the movies we want --
Lulls --
My father's country is the poor --
Recording the seasons --
In search of our mothers' gardens --
From an interview --
a letter to the editor of Ms. --
Breaking chains and encouraging life --
If the present looks like the past, what does the future look like? --
Looking to the side, and back --
To "The Black Scholar" --
Brothers and sisters --
Silver writes --
Only justice can stop a curse --
"Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do" --
To the editors of Ms. magazine --
Writing "The Color Purple" --
"One" child of one's own: a meaningful digression within the work(s) --
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."