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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:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Alice Walker's poems are direct and exuberant, but they are a minor achievement in comparison with her prose. Her main impulse in writing fiction, she has said, is to record history—"and the history of my family, like...
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From: Female Pastoral: Women Writers Re-Visioning the American South[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Harrison argues that Walker in The Color Purple (1982) rejects the “escape from the southern garden as solution” to victimization and imagines the same garden as liberating and...
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From: English Language Notes[(essay date December 1996) In the following essay, Crosland comments on the moral and cultural symbolism of the main characters in "Nineteen Fifty-Five," citing their relevance to the story's theme.] "Nineteen...
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From: Modern Language Studies[(essay date Winter 1989) In the following essay, Hall Petry discusses the differences between the short stories of Walker's In Love and Trouble and her stories in You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, asserting that the...
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From: American Studies in Scandinavia[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Hoel analyzes Walker's choice of African and Arab character names in the short story "Everyday Use."] The short story "Everyday Use"1 is central in Alice Walker's writing,...
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From:African American Writers (Vol. 2. 2nd ed.)MARY MARGARET RICHARDS Introduction IN A 1973 interview, Alice Walker said: I am preoccupied with the spiritual survival, the survival whole of my people. But beyond that, I am committed to exploring the...