In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose / by Alice Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Alice, 1944-.

Walker, Alice.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

African American women authors--Biography.

African American women authors.

Feminism--United States.

Feminism.

United States.

American essays--20th century.

American essays.

Genre:

Biographies.

Essays.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 397 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1983.

Contents:

Part One. 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 Still the Cotton Gin Kept on Working ..."; A Talk: Convocation 1972; 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

Part Two. 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 Say at Home: Ten years after the March on Washington; Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected writings of Social Protest; Making the moves and the movies we want; Lulls; My Father's Country is the Poor; Recording the Seasons

Part Three. 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

Part Four. 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 with the work(s); Beauty: When the other dancer is the self.

Notes:

"This is the first collection of Alice Walker's nonfiction, representing the views of a remarkable writer over a period of fifteen years."--Dustjacket.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151445257 :

OCLC:

9557895