Everyday Use

Alice Walker

AvAlice Walker,Barbara T. Christian

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813520766

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BARBARA T. CHRISTIAN is a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Alice Walker and "The Color Purple"; Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers; and Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition 1892-1976.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction - Barbara T. ChristianChronologyEveryday Use - Alice WalkerBackground to the Story:In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - Alice WalkerFor My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties - Alice WalkerInterview with Alice Walker - John O'BrienCritical Essays:An Essay on Alice Walker - Mary Helen WashingtonAlice Walker's Celebration of Self in Southern Generations - Thadious M. DavisAlice Walker: The Black Woman as an Artist - Barbara T. ChristianPatches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' - Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-BakerSisters' Choices: Quilting Aesthetics in Contemporary African-American Women's Fiction - Margot Anne KelleyCommon Threads - Elaine ShowalterSelected BibliographyPermissions