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  1. Mar 10, 2020 · xviii, 397 pages ; 22 cm In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political.

  2. May 19, 2003 · View Kindle Edition. 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.

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  3. Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose is a collection composed of 36 separate pieces written by Alice Walker. The essays, articles, reviews, statements, and speeches were written between 1966 and 1982. [1] Many are based on her understanding of "womanist" theory. Walker defines "womanist" at the beginning of the ...

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  5. Jan 1, 2001 · I first read Alice Walker's collected essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, shortly after it was released in 1984. Thirty-some years ago, I heard (or remember her saying) that our foremothers were both blocked from realizing their abilities, and redirected their creative urges toward gardening and quilt making.

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  6. Oct 10, 1983 · Alice Walker (b. 1944), one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award.

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  8. Nov 22, 2011 · In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. : In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political. This edition includes a new Letter to the Reader by Alice Walker. Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker's first collection ...

  9. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. 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 ...

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