Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alice Walker (born 1944) was best known for her stories about black women who achieve heroic stature within the confines of their ordinary day-to-day lives. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia,...
[This entry was updated by Donna Haisty Winchell (Clemson University) from her entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 277-292.] Alice Walker knows firsthand the social and political consequences of being a black woman...
Walker was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, about seventy-five miles southeast of Atlanta. She was the youngest of eight children, five boys and three girls, all of whom lived in a three-or four-room house in the country. Her father, Willie Le...
Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice Walker 1992; 288pp, $14 Washington Square Press As a feminist, I have made it my business to hear the facts about Female Genital Mutilation. In my privileged, college-educated, white girl position, I hear about it all...
Alice Walker's fifth novel, Possessing the Secret of joy (1992), marks a new beginning for an author/activist who explicitly appropriates Carl Jung's archetypal patterns of the ego, the shadow, the anima/animus, and the Self in a psychological process that promises individual harmony and wholeness...
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