Alice Walker

Alice Walker Criticism

• Walker, Alice (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Dressing the Spirit: Clothworking and Language in The Color Purple
    • Celie in the Looking Glass: The Desire for Selfhood in The Color Purple
    • Lettered Bodies and Corporeal Texts in The Color Purple
    • Errant Narrative and The Color Purple
    • ‘What She Got to Sing About?’: Comedy and The Color Purple.
    • Celie's Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker's The Color Purple
    • ‘A View from “Elsewhere”’: Subversive Sexuality and the Rewriting of the Heroine's Story in The Color Purple
    • Towards a Map of Mis(sed) Reading: The Presence of Absence in The Color Purple
    • Humor, Subjectivity, Resistance: The Case of Laughter in The Color Purple
    • Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple
    • From Monotheism to Pantheism: Liberation from Patriarchy in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
    • Named and Nameless: Alice Walker's Pattern of Surnames in The Color Purple
    • Philomela Speaks: Alice Walker's Revisioning of Rape Archetypes in The Color Purple
    • How Narration Produces Gender: Femininity as Affect and Effect in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
  • Further Reading
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 27)
  • Introduction
  • Stretching the Short Story
  • Heirs to the Dream
  • A Long Road to Liberation
  • Some Letters Went to God
  • Good Men Are Hard to Find
  • 'Celie, You a Tree'
  • Collective Experience and Individual Responsibility: Alice Walker's 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland'
  • Victory over Bitterness
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 103)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Contrary Women of Alice Walker
    • Novelist Alice Walker Telling the Black Woman's Story
    • Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker: A Spiritual Kinship
    • In Search of Our Fathers' Arms: Alice Walker's Persona of the Alienated Darling
    • We Are the Ones That We Have Been Waiting For: Political Content in Alice Walker's Novels
    • Alice Walker's Women
    • Positive Black Male Images in Alice Walker's Fiction
    • Alice Walker: The Achievement of the Short Fiction
    • Alice Walker's Vision of the South in The Third Life of Grange Copeland
    • Victims of Tradition
    • Warrior Marks
    • Warrior Marks
    • Ancient Spirits
    • The Body as a Site of Colonization: Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy
    • Celebrity and Other Complaints
  • Further Reading
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 5)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 6)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 9)
• Walker, Alice (Vol. 19)
  • Introduction
  • Alice Walker: 'The Diary of an African Nun' and Dubois' Double Consciousness
  • 'Cast Out Alone / To Heal / And Re-Create / Ourselves': Family-Based Identity in the Work of Alice Walker
  • In Praise of Poetry
  • An Essay on Alice Walker
• Walker, Alice (Poetry Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • A Spectrum of Blackness
    • The Poetic Knife: Poetry by Recent Southern Women Poets
    • Alice Walker: Her Own Woman
    • Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
    • Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
    • Once
    • Poetry as Preface to Fiction
    • Poetry Celebrating Life
    • Alice Walker: An Interview
    • The Politics of Matrilineage: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of African American Women, 1965-1985
  • Further Reading