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"Everyday Use" / Alice Walker ; edited, and with an introduction by Barbara T. Christian.

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LIBRA - Rare PS3573.A425 E9 1994 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Contributor:
Christian, Barbara, 1943-2000, editor, writer of introduction.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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