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Alice Walker In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 0151445257 / 9780151445257 Hardcover Good
0151445257 bottom back gutter and a closed tear at the top front with resulting loss. NOT price clipped (14. 95) ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the first a remarkable writer over a period of fifteen years. The pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications.
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Alice Walker Once
Harvest 0156687453 / 9780156687454 PAPERBACK Good
0156687453 May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Alice Walker Possessing the Secret of Joy
Pocket 0671789422 / 9780671789428 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0671789422 Mass Market Paperback. G. Lite wear, creases otherwise a solid copy. General Used condition. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Alice Walker Temple of My Familiar
Audioworks 1989 0671688332 / 9780671688332 Audiobook Cassette Good
0671688332 Ex-Library. Cover shows wear. From Publishers Weekly Part love story, part fable, part feminist manifesto, part political statement, Walker's new novel follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of them black, and each representing a different ethnic strain--ranging from diverse African tribes to the mixed bloods of Latin America--that contribute to the black experience in America. As each tells of his or her life (and sometimes, previous lives in various reincarnations), Walker relates the damage inflicted on blacks by the oppression of slavery in Africa and in the South, and less visibly but just as invidiously, by the racial prejudice existing today. Because her characters are intrinsically interesting, (one is the granddaughter of Celie from The Color Purple ) this device works most of the time. But when Walker hypothesizes that Western civilization stole and subverted the ancient African deities, metamorphosing their worship of the Mother Goddess into a patriarchal line, the narrative takes on the strident tones of a polemic. Black women have suffered most, is Walker's message, since they were subjugated both by whites and by men. Unfortunately, didacticism mars the narrative; theorizing and pontificating take the place of action. Thus, though it has its own strengths, the book never achieves the narrative power of The Color Purple . 175,000 copy first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC featured alternate; paperback sale to Pocket Books, author tour. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Nothing in Walker's extraordinary new novel is fixed. Time and place range from precolonial Africa to post-slavery North Carolina to modern-day San Francisco; and the characters themselves change and evolve as their stories are told, their myriad histories revealed. Most often present are Miss Lissie, an old woman with a fascinating host of former lives; her companion, the gentle Mr. Hal; Arveyda, a soul-searching musician; his wife Carlotta, who was born in the South American jungle; Fanny, a young woman who has a tendency to fall in love with spirits; and her husband Suwelo, who tries hard but simply does not understand her. Out of the telling of their stories emerges a glorious and iridescent fabric, a strand connecting all their lives and former lives and seeming to pull all of existence into its folds. Walker's characters are magnetic, even with their all-to-human flaws and stumblings; they seem to contain the world, and to do it justice. Highly recommended. - Jessica Grim, Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Alice Walker The Color Purple
Pocket 1990 0671727796 / 9780671727796 Mass Market Paperback Good
0671727796 Review Novel by Alice Walker, published in 1982. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983. A feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment, the novel was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Product Description Sisters Nettie and Celie, the former a missionary in Africa, the latter a southern woman trapped in an unhappy marriage, share their thoughts and experiences throughout a thirty-year correspondence. Reissue. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. NYT. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Alice Walker The Color Purple
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982 0151191530 / 9780151191536 Paperback Good
0151191530 Ex-Library with the usual markings. No dustjacket. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Alice Walker The Color Purple
Pocket Books (Mm) 0671617028 / 9780671617028 PAPERBACK Fair
0671617028 Mass market, Acceptable. General used condition. May have owner's name, creases, tanned pages and/or shelfwear. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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Alice Walker; Pratibha Parmar Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
Harcourt Brace & Co. 0151000611 / 9780151000616 Hardcover Good
0151000611 Clean, tight with slight shelfwear. Ex-library with the usual markings. From Publishers WeeklyFemale genital mutilation is still widely practiced in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Walker, whose 1992 novel Possessing the Secret of Joy explored the life of a genitally mutilated African woman, teamed up with Indian filmmaker Parmar (who was born in Kenya and is based in London) to make a documentary film about this abhorrent practice. This forceful account of how they filmed Warrior Marks in Africa in 1992-93 splices letters, journal entries, photographs, poems and interviews with victims of "female circumcision," their families, women who perform clitoridectomies and activists opposed to the practice. Included is medical testimony suggesting that female genital mutilation may contribute to the spread of AIDS. This remarkable cross-cultural collaboration should help to break the deafening silence surrounding a taboo subject.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Alice Walker We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
New Press, The 2006 1595581375 / 9781595581372 Hardcover New
1595581375 From Publishers Weekly Often rambling and occasionally pedantic, the essays in Walker's latest collection can also be stunningly insightful. Mixing prose with poetry, she discusses Martin Luther King, feminism and meditation, among other subjects, always circling back to themes of integrity and activism. The most substantial entries are based on live lectures. In a speech to the graduating class of the California Institute of Integral Studies, Walker urges that we not fear the pause that "wisdom requires" when "something major is accomplished," despite our eagerness to rush into "The Future." She manages to show how this "moment of reflection" is natural and necessary, whether the defining event is college graduation, menopause or the buildup to a military invasion. Her 2002 lecture, "I Call That Man Religious," argues that Fidel Castro is a "truly religious man" because he "speaks out for the rights of the poor," in contrast to the Catholic Church, which hid its priests' abuse of children for so long. More contradictory is "Crimes Against Dog," in which she describes a visit to buy a labrador retriever and her discomfort at the similarity between dog breeders and slaveholders, but doesn't consider getting a mutt. Despite the annoying inclusion of homework-like assignments at the end of most essays, this book will inspire hope. (Dec.) Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Walker, best known as a novelist, offers a collection of her essays and talks in a variety of venues and efforts to express and encourage spirituality and progressive political ideas. Talking to midwives, black yoga instructors, college students, Buddhists, and other admirers of her work, Walker offers commentary on the ways that modern society is destroying itself and the earth, and yet stands on the threshold of promising development. Walker urges resistance to war, lower birth rates, simpler living, and simple kindness as ways to improve life for us all. In a commencement address, she urges her listeners to value "the pause," the time between accomplishments when we wonder what is next and are afraid of the temporary emptiness. Taking her title from words by the poet June Jordan, Walker encourages the reader to recognize the potential that each of us has to make positive changes in the world and our lives. This is a thoughtful and reflective look at life and the search for meaning. Vanessa Bush Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved
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