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"Everyday Use" / Alice Walker ; edited, and with an introduction by Barbara T. Christian.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Series:
- Women writers (New Brunswick, N.J.)
- Women writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walker, Alice, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.
- Walker, Alice.
- Walker, Alice, 1944-.
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Southern States--Fiction.
- Southern States.
- Quiltmakers--Fiction.
- Quiltmakers.
- Quilting--Fiction.
- Quilting.
- Quilts--Fiction.
- Quilts.
- Walker, Alice. Everyday use.
- Local Subjects:
- Walker, Alice. Everyday use.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 229 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Everyday Use
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Barbara T. Christian
- Chronology
- Everyday use / Alice Walker
- Background to the Story. In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker; For my sister Molly who in the Fifties / Alice Walker; Interview with Alice Walker / John O'Brien
- Critical Essays. An essay on Alice Walker / Mary Helen Washington; Alice Walker's celebration of self in Southern generations / Thadious M. Davis; Alice Walker : the black woman artist as wayward / Barbara T. Christian; Patches: quilts and community in Alice Walker's "Everyday use" / Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-Baker; Sisters' choices: quilting aesthetics in contemporary African-American women's fiction / Margot Anne Kelley; Common threads / Elaine Showalter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Walker, Alice, 1944- Everyday use.
- ISBN:
- 0813520754
- 9780813520759
- 0813520762
- 9780813520766
- OCLC:
- 29028043
- Publisher Number:
- 9780813520766
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