Alice Walker / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold, editor, writer of introduction.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Alice, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.

Walker, Alice.

Walker, Alice, 1944-.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

African Americans in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.

Summary:

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

Contents:

Introduction / Harold Bloom

"Cast Out Alone/toHeal/and Re-create/Ourselves": Family-based Identity in the Work of Alice Walker / Peter Erickson

Walker's Celebration of Self in Southern Generations / Thadious M. Davis

The Black Woman Artist as Wayward / Barbara Christian

Walker's Blues / Keith Byerman

The Color Purple Revisions and Redefinitions / Mae G. Henderson

Walker's Women / Susan Willis

Discourse of the Other: The Third Life of Grange Copeland / W. Laurence Hogue

Black Matrilineage: The Case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston / Dianne F. Sadoff

"The Changing Same": Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists / Deborah E. McDowell

The Hoop of Language: Politics and Restoration of Voice in Meridian / John F. Callahan

"Show Me How to Do Like You": Didacticism and Epistolary Form in The Color Purple / Tamar Katz

Clytemnestra's Children: Writing (Out) the Mother's Anger / Marianne Hirsch

Writing the Subject: Reading The Color Purple / Bell Hooks.

Notes:

"Jacket illustration by Lisa Desimini. 'Alice Walker ... is seen in the thematic context of the relationship between mother and daughter that she has portrayed in her works.-H.B.'"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket with "Medallion Edition" gold sticker retained.

ISBN:

1555463142

OCLC:

16718398