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KEITH BYERMAN (ESSAY DATE 2000)

SOURCE: Byerman, Keith. "Gender and Justice: Alice Walker and the Sexual Politics of Civil Rights." In The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks, pp. 93-106. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

In the following essay, Byerman considers the interrelationship between racial discrimination and gender relations in Walker's fiction, contending that she uses the mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement in the South to explore current issues of gender and power.

In her novel Meridian (1976), Alice Walker depicts a northern white civil rights worker very concerned with her impulse to see southern blacks as aesthetic objects: "To Lynne, the black people of the South were Art.… 'I will pay for this,' she often warned herself. 'It is...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
4. General Commentary
   1. Ruth D. Weston (Essay Date Spring-Summer 1992)
   2. Keith Byerman (Essay Date 2000)
5. Title Commentary
   1. "Everyday Use"
   2. The Color Purple
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

1. Feminism
2. Alice Walker