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From:Kola (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSeveral Afro-American writers such as Phyllis Wheatley, Countee Cullen and W. E. B. Dubois depicted Africa in several of their works. Most of them were influenced by the religious and socio-political ideologies of their...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn a 1970 essay, "The Black Writer and the Southern Experience," Alice Walker qualifies her refusal to "romanticize the Southern black country life" of her upbringing, recalling that while she "hated it, generally ......
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From:Obsidian II (Vol. 12, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe discourse on memory in Alice Walker's work, in her fiction as well as in her essays, is obvious. In the cases of Meridian and The Color Purple it has been accounted for. Yet, the single work in which all her...
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From:Tikkun (Vol. 24, Issue 5)"Three things cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha THREE YEARS AGO I VISITED RWANDA AND EASTERN CONGO. IN KIGALI I paid my respects to the hundreds of thousands of infants, toddlers,...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn his report following the battle for Ben Tre during the Vietnam War, Peter Arnett quotes an American officer as saying, "'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it'" (256). The statement was quickly used by...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince the 1970s, the personal voice has been brought to bear more and more often on literary criticism, leading, Nancy Millet to describe the 1990s as a time of confessional culture that manifested itself in academia...
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From:Rocky Mountain Review (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn her pivotal 1979 essay "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," Barbara Smith lamented the lack of black lesbian representation in U.S. literary criticism. She explained that "All segments of the literary world-whether...
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From:Shenandoah (Vol. 60, Issue 1-2)At the opening of "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor," in the collection of essays In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker points out that in 1952 she and O'Connor lived "within minutes...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe shift in attitude from traditional Christianity to a pantheistic outlook parallels the movement from oppression to freedom for Celie, the central character in Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple.' Celie is dominated and...
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From:The Comparatist (Vol. 37) Peer-ReviewedAfter publishing his study of Racine in 1963, Roland Barthes came under fire for what many critics of the French literary establishment saw as a misreading of the iconic dramatist. One particularly hostile member of the...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlice Walker's novel 'Meridian' can facilitate interracial understanding when taught in the college classroom. The book explores the relations of Blacks and Jews in the 1960's Civil Rights Movement, using a romantic...
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From: The Hollins CriticReferring to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Alice Walker asserts, “There is no book more important to me than this one.” Added to that statement of memorial is a poem composed by Walker...
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From: in Books and Bookmen[(review date 1985) In the following essay, Lasdun provides a mixed review of Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful.] 'We are indifferent to England' writes Alice Walker in 'Each One, Pull One,', an impassioned...
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From: Southern Quarterly[(essay date spring 2004) In the following essay, Mickelsen discusses Walker's depiction of relations between white and black communities in "Nineteen Fifty-Five."] You can't find it in a book ... you've got to inherit...
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From: Journal of Narrative Technique[(essay date fall 1986) In the following essay, Tavormina analyzes the parallels between clothing and the perception of the characters in The Color Purple, noting how Walker's characters use sewing to create a sense of...
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From: Midwest Quarterly[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Hankinson discusses how the development of Celie's religious beliefs in The Color Purple are instrumental in and indicative of her spiritual growth.] Alice Walker's The...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersWhen Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple (1982) became a movie, she gained her widest acclaim as an author. In the characters of Celie, Sophia, and Shug, Walker builds strong and assertive black...
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From: Callaloo[(essay date spring 1989) In the following essay, Byerman investigates Walker's deconstruction of patriarchal narrative strategies in "Coming Apart," "Porn," and "Advancing Luna--and Ida B. Wells," arguing that contexts...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date December 1994) In the following essay, Korenman assesses the representation of black nationalism as a threat to the matrilineal heritage of the African diaspora in America, examining Walker's "Everyday Use,"...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionMore than anything, Alice Walker's "To Hell with Dying" is about her roots as a writer. It represents, for example, one of her first real successes in African-American literary circles and her first published story, in...