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Mar 20, 2024 · Most of the essay is in prose, but that prose is not all alike. In fact, Walker includes exposition, vivid description, analysis, and anecdotes to bring her prose to life.
The In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
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.
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When the poet Jean Toomer walked through the South in the early twenties, he discovered a curious thing: black women whose spirituality was so intense, so deep, so unconscious, that they were themselves unaware of the richness they held.
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Mar 10, 2020 · 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.
Feb 20, 2021 · In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose. by. Walker, Alice, 1944-. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Walker, Alice, 1944-, Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography, African American women authors -- Biography, Feminism -- United States, African American women. Publisher. Orlando : Harcourt.
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Oct 14, 2010 · Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking women writers through history – from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O’Connor.
