Jan 2, 2010
Possessing the Secret of Joy | Possessing the Secret of Joy
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1992
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, Suffering, United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Tradition, Sexism, Blacks, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Gender roles, California, West, U.S., Pain, Women’s issues, Adultery, Multiculturalism, Women, Revenge, Rites or ceremonies
- Locales: Africa, California
The Work
Possessing the Secret of Joy expresses, in fictional and direct statements, its
author’s resistance to the practice of female circumcision. According to Alice Walker, in
1991 ninety to one-hundred million women and girls living in African, Far Eastern, and Middle
Eastern countries were genitally mutilated, and the practice of “female
circumcision” in the United States and Europe was growing among immigrants from
countries where it was a part of the culture.
Three characters from Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) and The Temple
of My...
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