In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose / by Alice Walker.
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
[1983]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Harvest book.
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| Summary: | In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 397 pages ; 22 cm. Also issued online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0151445257 9780151445257 0156445441 9780156445443 0156028646 9780156028646 |