Critical companion to Alice Walker: a literary reference to her life and work
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| Physical Description: | XII, 452 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780816075300 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ix
Part I: Biography
1
Part II: Works A to
Z
19
Novels
21
Short Fiction
217
Poetry Collections and Selected Individual Poems
253
Nonfìction
Collections and Selected Individual Essays
263
Children s Books
283
Selected
Nonfìction
Audio Recordings
287
Part III: Related People, Places, and Topics
291
Part IV: Appendixes
409
Chronology of Alice Walker s Life
411
Selected Awards and Recognitions
415
Bibliography of Walker s Works
416
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
418
Index
436
CRITICAL COMPANION TO
Alice Walker
A lice Walker is one of the living writers whose work is read most often in high
school and college classes. While she is known primarily for her masterpiece
The Color Purple, many of her other novels, essays, and poems are also favorites of
both students and teachers alike. In
1983
she became the first African-American
woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Critical Companion to Alice Walker
is a one-stop resource for anyone interested in this prolific author
s
life and work.
Coverage includes
♦
A concise but thorough biography of Walker
♦
Entries on all of Walkers major works, including such novels as
The Color Purple, Meridian, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, and
Possessing the Secret of Joy; essay collections and individual essays,
such as Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self ; poetry collec¬
tions and individual poems; and short stories. Each entry on a major
work of fiction contains subentries on the work s main characters.
♦
Entries on related people, places, and topics, such as feminism,
Zora
Neale Hurston,
Spelman
College, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey,
and more
♦
Appendixes, including a chronology, a bibliography of Walker s
works, a secondary source bibliography, and a list of recognitions
and awards
Carmen Gillespie is a professor of English at Bucknell University and director of the
Griot
Institute of
Africana
Studies. She is the author of Facts On File s Critical Companion
to
Toni
Morrison and many scholarly articles and poems. In
2010,
she won the Naomi
Long Madgett Poetry Prize for her collection Jonestown: A Vexation and was named one
of Essences
40
favorite poets in commemoration of the magazine s 40th anniversary.
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