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Allan, Tuzyline Jita. "Womanism Revisited: Women and the (Ab)Use of Power in The Color Purple." In Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds, edited by Susan Ostrov Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner, pp. 88-105, New York: New York University Press, 1994.

Discusses the negative aspects of female power in Walker's The Color Purple.

Baker, Jr., Houston A. and Charlotte Pierce-Baker. "Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use.'" Southern Review 21, No. 3 (July 1985): 706-20.

Compares the art of quilting in Walker's "Everyday Use" to overcoming chaos by skillfully stitching life's fragments.

Carter, Nancy Corson. "Claiming the Bittersweet Matrix: Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adrienne Rich." Critique XXXV, No. 4 (Summer 1994): 195-204.

Discusses the journey of the artist as portrayed in...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Barbara Christian (essay date March/April 1981)
   2. David Bradley (essay date 8 January 1984)
   3. Alma S. Freeman (essay date Spring 1985)
   4. Philip M. Royster (essay date Winter 1986)
   5. Barbara T. Christian (essay date 1986)
   6. Susan Willis (essay date 1987)
   7. J. Charles Washington (essay date Spring 1988)
   8. Alice Hall Petry (essay date Winter 1989)
   9. Robert James Butler (essay date Summer 1993)
   10. Judy Mann (review date 16 January 1994)
   11. Victoria A. Brownworth (review date September-October 1994)
   12. Tobe Levin (review date Fall 1994)
   13. Claire Messud (review date 11 November 1994)
   14. Alyson R. Buckman (essay date Summer 1995)
   15. Francine Prose (review date 2 January 1996)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Alice Walker