In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist ProseHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - 397 páginas Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings." -- Kirkus Reviews In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist. Among the thirty-six pieces are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words. |
Contenido
The Importance of Models in the Artists Life | 3 |
The Black Writer and the Southern Experience | 15 |
But Yet and Still the Cotton Gin Kept on Working | 22 |
Convocation 1972 | 33 |
The Reconstruction of Flannery OConnor | 42 |
The Divided Life of Jean Toomer | 60 |
A Writer Because of Not in Spite of Her Children | 66 |
The Writings of Rebecca Jackson | 71 |
Recording the Seasons | 223 |
Part 3 | 229 |
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens | 231 |
From an Interview | 244 |
A Letter to the Editor of Ms | 273 |
Breaking Chains and Encouraging Life | 278 |
If the Present Looks Like the Past What Does the Future Look Like? | 290 |
Looking to the Side and Back | 313 |
A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View | 83 |
Looking for Zora | 93 |
Part 2 | 117 |
What Good Was It? | 119 |
The Unglamorous but Worthwhile Duties of the Black Revolutionary Artist or of the Black Writer Who Simply Works and Writes | 130 |
The Almost Year | 139 |
A Tribute to Dr Martin Luther King Jr | 142 |
Revisited | 146 |
Ten Years after the March on Washington | 158 |
Uncollected Writings of Social Protest | 171 |
Making the Moves and the Movies We Want | 178 |
Lulls | 181 |
My Fathers Country Is the Poor | 199 |
To The Black Scholar | 320 |
Brothers and Sisters | 326 |
Part 4 | 333 |
Silver Writes | 335 |
Only Justice Can Stop a Curse | 338 |
What You Can Do | 343 |
To the Editors of Ms Magazine | 347 |
Writing The Color Purple | 355 |
When the Other Dancer Is the Self | 361 |
A Meaningful Digression within the Works | 371 |
Publication Acknowledgments | 395 |
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