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Title: Everyday Use
Condition: New
Subtitle: Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker
Contributor: Barbara T. Christian (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0813520762
EAN: 9780813520766
ISBN: 9780813520766
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Date: 01/06/1994
Description: Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers.

This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington.

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 355g
Book Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Release Year: 1994

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