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Alice Walker
- Title
- Alice Walker / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Publication
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bloom, Harold.
- Description
- 83 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Bloom's major novelists
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-81) and index.
- Contents
- Biography of Alice Walker -- [pt. 1]. Plot summary of Meridian -- List of characters in Meridian -- Critical views on Meridian: Marge Piercy on Meridian's saintly progress -- New Yorker on the philosophy of Meridian -- Michael G. Cooke on Walker's vision of the just person -- Peter Erickson on the relationship between mother and daughter -- Deborah E. McDowell on race and gender roles -- Carol Rumens on racial equality and sexual justice -- Thadious M. Davis on the creation of a personal identity -- Barbara Christian on the myth of black motherhood -- Susan Willis on the radical potential of language -- John F. Callahan on the idea of revolution -- John F. Callahan on the aura of voice -- [pt. 2]. Plot summary of The color purple -- List of characters in The color purple -- Critical views on The color purple: -- Gloria Steinem on storytelling style -- Peter S. Prescott on redemptive love -- Mel Watkins on folk voice -- Robert Towers on the rhythms of dialect -- Dinitia Smith on the Southern fictional tradition -- Elizabeth Bartelme on growth and change -- Trudier Harris on the myth of the American Dream -- Bettye J. Parker-Smith on sovereign women -- George Stade on women and men -- Gerald Early on ideological failure -- Richard Wesley on black men -- Darryl Pinckney on the liberating bonds between black women -- Deborah E. McDowell on the linguistic experience -- Bell Hooks on the erotic metaphysic.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-144
- ISBN
- 0791052508
- LCCN
- 99014577
- OCLC
- 40939947
- Title
- Alice Walker / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000.
- Series
- Bloom's major novelists
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-81) and index.
- Added Author
- Bloom, Harold.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-144