TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bates,Gerri
TI  - Alice Walker: a critical companion 
T2  - Critical companions to popular contemporary writers,
SN  - 0313320241
AV  - PS3573.A425 Z57 2005
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Greenwood Press
KW  - Walker, Alice,
KW  - Walker, Alice
KW  - Walker, Alice.
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Handbooks and manuals
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-208) and index; The life of Alice Walker -- Literary contexts -- The third life of Grange Copeland (1970) -- Meridian (1976) -- The color purple (1982) -- The temple of my familiar (1989) -- Possessing the secret of joy (1992) -- By the light of my father's smile (1998) -- The way forward is with a broken heart (2000) -- Now is the time to open your heart : a novel (2004)
N2  - "Alice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world's most respected African American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, Walker began to draw on both her personal tragedies and those of her community to write poetry, essays, short stories, and novels that would tell the virtually untold stories of oppressed African and African American women, providing them with hope and inspiring activism. Perhaps best known for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and became a controversial film three years later, Walker has introduced and developed womanist theory, criticism and practice, and continues to champion the causes of women of color by encouraging their strength and liberation in her life and her writings."--Jacket
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020066.html
ER  -