Nov 19, 2008

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens | In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

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Author: Alice Walker
First Published: 1983
Type of Work: Essays
Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
Subjects: African Americans, Self-discovery, Racism, Authors or writers, Literature, Social issues, Art or artists, Feminism, Women, Creative process

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The essay collection In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose gathers nonfiction that Alice Walker, a novelist, short-story writer, and poet, wrote between 1966 and 1982. It includes book reviews published in scholarly journals and popular magazines, transcripts of addresses to groups and institutions, and articles for Ms. magazine. The earliest selection is the essay “The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?” which won Walker a prize in the annual American Scholar contest when she was twenty-three. Among the latest is...

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In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens | In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

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Form and Content

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