The Third Life of Grange Copeland | Literary Precedents
In her collection of essays entitled In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983), Alice Walker makes repeated reference to her indebtedness to Zora Neale Hurston, a novelist, playwright and anthropologist of the Harlem Renaissance. Walker states that Hurston's writing gave to her a sense that black cultural heritage was a valid, affirming and valuable part of one's identity, a sense that Walker found lacking in the protest fiction of authors such as Richard Wright. Walker's concern with black men's displacement of anger against white men onto black women and her search for a model of...
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