By the Light of My Father's Smile.
| Publisher | African American Review |
| Publication | African American Review |
| Subject | Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 1062-4783 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Published | 1999-12-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Rudolph P. Byrd |
| Reviewee | n/a | Alice Walker |
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| By the Light of My Father’s Smile | Salem on Literature |
Alice Walker. By the Light of My Father's Smile. New York: Random, 1998. 219 pp. $22.95.
Alice Walker's By the Light of My Father's Smile opens significantly with a chapter entitled "Angels," which is also the title of the first of three sections of this new novel in which spirituality is a dominant theme. Who is speaking in this first chapter? Who, indeed, is the angel? The angel, we soon discover, is the father of Susannah and Magdalena Robinson. Called only Senor Robinson in the novel, in life he is an anthropologist masquerading as a minister. Robinson takes up residence...
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