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In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Zora Neale Hurston: Add a description of this character.
- Jean Toomer
- Rebecca Jackson
- Mrs. Moseley
- Faulkner
- Zora Hurston
- Brown
- Flannery O'connor
- Janie Crawford
- Martin Luther King
- Sarah Lawrence
- Dr. Benton
- Mrs. Hudson
- Hughes
- Joe
- Harriet Tubman
- Sammy Lou
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Rosa Lee
- Rebecca Perot
- Michele Wallace
- Mrs. Patterson
- Mabel
- Shirley Chisholm
- Margaret Walker
- Wheatley
- Richard Wright
- Pablo Diaz
- Dinah
- Larsen
- Lorene
- Angela Davis
- Shockley
- Martin King
- Toni Morrison
- Pogrebin
- Langston
- Mel
First Sentence edit
I come out of a tradition where those thing are valued; where you talk about with legs and big hips and black skin.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alice Walker (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0156445441
Page Count: 420
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0156445441
Page Count: 420
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 818.5409
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › African American › Walker, Alice
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Feminist Theory
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › African-American & Black
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
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