In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens

Womanist Prose

by Alice Walker

On Sale: 05/17/2004

In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens

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In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens

Womanist Prose

by Alice Walker

On Sale: 05/17/2004

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About the Book

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.

Critical Praise

“One of the healthiest collections of essays I have come across in a long time . . . What [Walker] says about the black woman she says from the depths of oppression. What is said from the depths of oppression illuminates all other oppressions.” — New Statesman

“Reflects not only the ideas but a life that has . . . breathed color, sound, and soul into fiction and poetry—and into our lives as well.” — San Francisco Chronicle

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780156028646
  • ISBN 10: 0156028646
  • Imprint: Amistad
  • On Sale: 05/17/2004
  • Pages: 416
  • List Price:25.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • BISAC2 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American
  • BISAC3 : SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  • BISAC4 : HISTORY / African American

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