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Alice Walker

Format: Print Book 2000
Availability: Available at 3 Libraries 4 of 4 copies

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CLP - Homewood African American PS3573.A425 Z535 2000
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Collection  African American
 
Call Number  PS3573.A425 Z535 2000
 
 
CLP - Main Library Second Floor - Non-fiction PS3573.A425 Z535 2000
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Call Number  PS3573.A425 Z535 2000
 
 
CLP - Main Library Second Floor - Non-fiction PS3573.A425 Z535 2000
Location  CLP - Main Library
 
Collection  Second Floor - Non-fiction
 
Call Number  PS3573.A425 Z535 2000
 
 
Whitehall Public Library Nonfiction Collection NF 813.54 W151b
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Summary
-- User's guide
-- A comprehensive biography of the novelist
-- Detailed plot summaries of each novel
-- Extracts from important critical essays that examine important aspects of each work
-- A complete bibliography of the writer's novels
-- A list of critical works about the author and his or her novels
-- An index of themes and ideas covered in the books
Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "Gr. 9^-12. Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple are the focus of this new title in Bloom's Major Novelists series. Bloom includes a brief biography of Walker and a plot summary of each text, but the majority of the book is an excellent selection of critical responses to the novels. Culled from a wide range of sources, they include both the straightforward and the radical, such as Gloria Steinem on storytelling style from Ms. magazine; George Stade's "Womanist Fiction and Male Characters," excerpted from Partisan Review; Barbara Christian on "The Myth of Black Motherhood"; and Bell Hooks on the "erotic metaphysic." Literature students will find much to guide them in analyzing the structure and ideologies of the novels and will be better equipped to form their own ideas of Walker's work within the greater body of literature. --Gillian Engberg"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Additional Information
Series Bloom's major novelists.
Subjects Walker, Alice, -- 1944- -- Examinations -- Study guides.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Publisher Philadelphia, Pa. :Chelsea House Publishers,2000
Contributors Bloom, Harold.
Language English
Description 83 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-81) and index.
ISBN 0791052508
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