When it was first published, Lauret's text was one of the first book-length studies of Alice Walker's prose to appear in Britain. This new edition has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship and brings coverage of the full range of...
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When it was first published, Lauret's text was one of the first book-length studies of Alice Walker's prose to appear in Britain. This new edition has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship and brings coverage of the full range of Walker's work up-to-date with the author's literary production, activism and life-events since 2000
When it was first published, Lauret's text was one of the first book-length studies of Alice Walker's prose to appear in Britain. This new edition has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship and brings coverage of the full range of...
more
When it was first published, Lauret's text was one of the first book-length studies of Alice Walker's prose to appear in Britain. This new edition has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship and brings coverage of the full range of Walker's work up-to-date with the author's literary production, activism and life-events since 2000. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword to the Second Edition: Alice Walker Ten Years Later -- 1 Alice Walker's Life and Work: An Introduction -- 2 The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) -- 3 Meridian (1976) -- 4 The Color Purple (1982) -- 5 The Temple of My Familiar (1989) -- 6 Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) -- 7 The Later Fiction: By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998) and Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) -- 8 A Writer's Activism - and its Critics: An Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
