Sources

Bryant, Jerry H. A review of In Love and Trouble, in The Nation, Vol. 217, November 12, 1973, pp. 503-5.

Christian, Barbara. "Alice Walker: The Black Woman Artist as Wayward," in Black Feminist Criticism, Pergamon Press, 1985, pp. 81-87.

Christian, Barbara. Everyday Use. Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Smith, Barbara. "The Souls of Black Women," Ms., no. 2, February 1974, p. 42.

Walker, Alice. "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," in In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker, Harcourt, 1983, pp. 231-243.

Further Reading

O'Brien, John. "Alice Walker," Interviews with Black Writers, Liveright, 1973, pp. 185-211.

An interview with Walker conducted around the time she wrote "Everyday Use."

Short Story Criticism, Vol. 5, Gale Research, 1990, pp. 400-24.

Critiques of Walker's short stories.

Winchell, Donna Haisty. Alice Walker, Twayne, 1992.

This work provides an overview of Walker's life and career, including detailed chapters on each of her publications. The third chapter offers an analysis of the stories in the collection where "Everyday Use" was first featured.