Critical Essays on Alice Walker

Abstract

Introduction: Alice Walker, Pygmalion in Reverse by Ikenna Dieke Occupational Hazard: Loss of Historical Context in Twentieth-Century Feminist Readings, and a New Reading of the Heroine's Story in Alice Walker's THE COLOR PURPLE by Dror Abend-David Heritage and Deracination in Walker's Everyday Use by David Cowart Alice Walker's Womanist Magic: The Conjure Woman as Rhetor by Catherine A. Colton When a Convent Seems the Only Viable Choice: Questionable Callings in Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich by Margaret D. Bauer Creating Generations: The Relationship between Celie and Shug in Alice Walker's THE COLOR PURPLE by E. Ellen Barker Alice Walker and the Man Question by Pia Thielmann Revolutionary Stanzas: The Civil and Human Rights Poetry of Alice Walker by Jefrey L. Coleman THE COLOR PURPLE: An Existential Novel by Marc-A. Christophe Alice Walker's Redemptive Art by Felipe Smith Walker's THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR: Womanist as Monistic Idealist by Ikenna Dieke Alice Walker's American Quilt: THE COLOR PURPLE and American Literary Tradition by Priscilla Leder Who Touches This Touches a Woman: The Naked Self in Alice Walker by Ruth D. Weston Nothing Can Be Sole or Whole That Has Not Been Rent: Fragmentation in the QUILT and THE COLOR PURPLE by Judy Elsley A Matter of Focus: Men in the Margins of Alice Walker's Fiction by Erna Kelly What She Got to Sing About?: Comedy and THE COLOR PURPLE by Priscilla L. Walton Alice Walker: Poesy and the Earthling Psyche by Ikenna Dieke Appendix: Chronology Selected Bibliography Index