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In search of our mothers' garden : womanist prose

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This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and how they nourish the present.

Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking writers through history - from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O'Connor.

She also looks back at the highs and lows of the civil rights movement, her early political development, and the place of women's traditions in art.

Coining the expression 'womanist prose', these are essays that value women's culture and strength, and the handing on of the creative spark from one generation to another.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
0753819600 / 9780753819609
Paperback / softback
814.54
20/10/2005
United Kingdom
English
xviii, 397 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983; London: Women's, 1984.
This first collection of non-fiction, spanning fifteen years, charts the early political development of this leading activist, thinker and novelist. 'Alice Walker is the brightest star in a galaxy of black American women writers' The Times 'In Alice Walker's wise and heart-stirring collection, the novelist hearkens back to the "immense" story of all human beings...her writing is "a calling to life" and is uplifting to read' Morning Star 'Alice Walker is an inspired preacher whose rhetoric of hope defies the harshness of reality...her delight in life, her exuberant love of anecdote and friendsh
This first collection of non-fiction, spanning fifteen years, charts the early political development of this leading activist, thinker and novelist. 'Alice Walker is the brightest star in a galaxy of black American women writers' The Times 'In Alice Walker's wise and heart-stirring collection, the novelist hearkens back to the "immense" story of all human beings...her writing is "a calling to life" and is uplifting to read' Morning Star 'Alice Walker is an inspired preacher whose rhetoric of hope defies the harshness of reality...her delight in life, her exuberant love of anecdote and friendsh DNF Literary essays