In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Womanist Prose
Walker, Alice
The Women's Press paperback, 1987.
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A foundational collection of essays, speeches, and critical writings by Alice Walker, where she articulates the concept of "womanism" as a framework to understand the unique experiences of Black and racialised women. Walker recovers the legacy of Black women artists and authors like Zora Neale Hurston, and reflects on her own creative process and political activism, and on the legacies of her ancestors. This collection is crucial for its development of womanist theory, which asserts the interconnectedness of struggles against sexism, racism, and classism, offering a vital intellectual and emotional landscape for the study of Black female identity, art, and resilience. The Women’s Press is a historical feminist publishing company, founded in the 70s in London. It had a crucial role in disseminating not only feminist political thought, but in highlighting contemporary women fiction writers from around the globe.
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Alice Walker
An acclaimed American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist, profoundly influential for her exploration of the lives of Black people, particularly Black women, often through the lens of their struggles for liberation and self-realisation. Raised in the American South, her experiences deeply inform her distinctive literary voice, which gained international recognition with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple (1982).
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