Critical Essays on Alice Walker

Subjects:

• Literature » American Literature
• Multicultural Studies » Black Studies
• Women's Studies » Women in Literature & the Arts

Reviews:

• Dieke has made a valuable contribution to the growing body of criticism on African American literature.
  —Choice
• This scholarly college-level survey of Alice Walker's works is recommended reading for any who want an assessment of her contributions....An excellent, involving critical collection for modern college-level students of her works.
  —The Bookwatch

Table of Contents:

• 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