Critical Companion To Alice Walker

Author Carmen Gillespie

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Carmen Gillespie

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2011

ISBN13

9781438134888

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Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Banned Books Collection on Gale eBooks for Middle and High School Students
Overview

Alice Walker is one of the few living writers whose work regularly appears in the high school curriculum. While she is known primarily for her best-selling novel and masterpiece The Color Purple, many of her other novels, essays, and poems are 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, works, and achievements.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Biography.
2: Walker, Alice (1944– ).
3: Works A to Z.
4: Novels.
5: By the Light of My Father’s Smile (1998).
6: Color Purple, the (1982).
7: Meridian (1976).
8: Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004).
9: Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).
10: The Temple of My Familiar (1989).
11: The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970).
12: Short Fiction.
13: The Complete Stories (2005).
14: In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973).
15: The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart (2000).
16: You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down (1981).
17: Poetry Collections and Selected Individual Poems.
18: Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems (2003).
19: “Ballad of the Brown Girl” (1968).
20: “Be Nobody’s Darling” (1973).
21: “Did this Happen to your Mother? Did your Sister Throw Up a Lot?” (1979).
22: Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See you in the Morning: Poems (1979).
23: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing (2010).
24: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965–1990 Complete (1991).
25: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1984).
26: “Janie Crawford” (1991).
27: Once: Poems (1968).
28: “Poem at Thirty-Nine” (1984).
29: Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings, A (2003).
30: “Revolutionary Petunias” (1973).
31: Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973).
32: “Suicide” (1968).
33: “We Have a Beautiful Mother” (1991).
34: “Why War is Never Good Idea” (2003).
35: Nonfiction Collections and Selected Individual Essays.
36: Alice Walker: Banned (1996).
37: “Alice Walker on Why War is Never a Good Idea”.
38: “Alice Walker Reflects on Working Toward Peace”.
39: “Alice Walker’s Wise Counsel for Obama” (2008).
40: Anything we Love
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