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  1. POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY explores the life of Tashi, an Olinkan tribeswoman who appeared briefly in Walker’s highly acclaimed novels THE COLOR PURPLE and THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR.

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  2. In Possessing the Secret of Joy, Tashi effectively tells her own bittersweet tale through Walker’s simple but precise prose. What is revealed is no less than shocking.

  3. Essays and criticism on Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy - Critical Essays.

  4. Possessing the Secret of Joy is a 1992 novel by Alice Walker. Plot summary. It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker's fictional African nation where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named ...

    • Alice Walker
    • 1992
  5. Dedicated “With Tenderness and Respect to the Blameless Vulva,” Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) has raised the consciousness of the Western world concerning ritual clitoridectomy or female genital mutilation (also called circumcision or infibulation).

  6. Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her...

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  8. Sep 20, 2011 · In Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker exposes the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation in an unforgettable, moving novel. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice...

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