Nagueyalti Warren, PhD,is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University, where she has taught literature and a seminar on the works of Alice Walker for thirty years. She is the editor of Temba Tupu (Walking Naked): Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait (2005) and Critical Insights: Alice Walker (2012). In addition to works of poetry—including Margaret, A Persona Poem (2008)—Warren is the author of W. E. B. Du Bois: Grandfather of Black Studies (2011).

Warren's in-depth study covers her scholarship on Walker over the last 30 years. Writing that Walker had an "early inclination toward mysticism,” Warren (Emory Univ.) explores Walker’s unique view of the spiritual by analyzing both her published and unpublished work. Warren claims Walker as a “spiritual theologian” who finds a way to show the transformative nature of humanity through characters who care about the world and the people in it. In the book's ten chapters Warren explores connections between Walker's mysticism and the various topics that interested her, including poverty, emotional development, civil rights, and religion. Valuable to those interested in a deeper look at Walker’s personal spiritual beliefs, this book joins a conversation Warren began in her edited volume AliceWalker (2013). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Dark BeginningsChapter 2: Spirit in the DarkChapter 3: What we Love, We SaveChapter 4: Amazing GraceChapter 5: Dear GodChapter 6: Entering the TempleChapter 7: Sexual HealingChapter 8: Opening to SpiritChapter 9: When the Other Dancer is the SelfChapter 10: Mystic WalkerSelected ReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Nagueyalti Warren, PhD,is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University, where she has taught literature and a seminar on the works of Alice Walker for thirty years. She is the editor of Temba Tupu (Walking Naked): Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait (2005) and Critical Insights: Alice Walker (2012). In addition to works of poetry—including Margaret, A Persona Poem (2008)—Warren is the author of W. E. B. Du Bois: Grandfather of Black Studies (2011).

Warren's in-depth study covers her scholarship on Walker over the last 30 years. Writing that Walker had an "early inclination toward mysticism,” Warren (Emory Univ.) explores Walker’s unique view of the spiritual by analyzing both her published and unpublished work. Warren claims Walker as a “spiritual theologian” who finds a way to show the transformative nature of humanity through characters who care about the world and the people in it. In the book's ten chapters Warren explores connections between Walker's mysticism and the various topics that interested her, including poverty, emotional development, civil rights, and religion. Valuable to those interested in a deeper look at Walker’s personal spiritual beliefs, this book joins a conversation Warren began in her edited volume AliceWalker (2013). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Dark BeginningsChapter 2: Spirit in the DarkChapter 3: What we Love, We SaveChapter 4: Amazing GraceChapter 5: Dear GodChapter 6: Entering the TempleChapter 7: Sexual HealingChapter 8: Opening to SpiritChapter 9: When the Other Dancer is the SelfChapter 10: Mystic WalkerSelected ReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Nagueyalti Warren, PhD,is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University, where she has taught literature and a seminar on the works of Alice Walker for thirty years. She is the editor of Temba Tupu (Walking Naked): Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait (2005) and Critical Insights: Alice Walker (2012). In addition to works of poetry—including Margaret, A Persona Poem (2008)—Warren is the author of W. E. B. Du Bois: Grandfather of Black Studies (2011).

Warren's in-depth study covers her scholarship on Walker over the last 30 years. Writing that Walker had an "early inclination toward mysticism,” Warren (Emory Univ.) explores Walker’s unique view of the spiritual by analyzing both her published and unpublished work. Warren claims Walker as a “spiritual theologian” who finds a way to show the transformative nature of humanity through characters who care about the world and the people in it. In the book's ten chapters Warren explores connections between Walker's mysticism and the various topics that interested her, including poverty, emotional development, civil rights, and religion. Valuable to those interested in a deeper look at Walker’s personal spiritual beliefs, this book joins a conversation Warren began in her edited volume AliceWalker (2013). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Dark BeginningsChapter 2: Spirit in the DarkChapter 3: What we Love, We SaveChapter 4: Amazing GraceChapter 5: Dear GodChapter 6: Entering the TempleChapter 7: Sexual HealingChapter 8: Opening to SpiritChapter 9: When the Other Dancer is the SelfChapter 10: Mystic WalkerSelected ReferencesIndexAbout the Author