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A Comparative Analysis of In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, Arts in the Contact Zone and The Hundred Secret Senses

In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...

Three Short Stories Set in the American South

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

Spirituality and Storytelling in Beloved by Toni Morrison

was painful or lost" (69). Beloved wants to hear about the diamond earrings that Mrs. Garner gave Sethe to mark her marital union...

Alice Walker and Amy Tan

who is not incredibly involved in her one daughters life. That daughter is Dee. The other daughter, Maggie, lives with her and the...

The Concept of Home and Family in the Works of Hansberry and Walker

she can show off to society. In Hansberrys play the story involves a family who is awaiting an inheritance. They all have their ...

Compare and Contrast: Welty's Why I Live at the P.O. and Walker's Everyday Use

been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

Literature and the Theme of Appearance versus Reality

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

Wangero’s Betrayal

shows the dilemma of those who seek to build a new life for themselves, at the cost of betraying their heritage. This paper discus...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

How Algebra is a Fixture in Daily Life

so the measure needs to be different. Heat is measured in temperature, There are two dimensions here, heat and time. It may be tem...

Writing Style in Alice Walker's When the Other Dancer is the Self

me turn on the one child at the school who continually calls me one-eyed bitch" (Walker). Her story is powerful, intimate, and inc...

Alice Walker’s Coming Apart

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

'Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self' by Alice Walker

immersed in her appearance. And, then comes the accident that will change her life and her perception of herself. Up until the ...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

Artists' Power in Works by Toni Morrison and J.D. Salinger

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

Alice Walker's Activist Message that Anything We Love Can be Saved as a Call to Arms

This is a critical analysis of a pair of essays contained in Alice Walker's collection of activist messages, Anything We Love Can ...

Alice Walker's Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation

This paper examines the crusade against female genital mutilation. The author cites Alice Walker's book, Anything We Love Can Be ...

Alice Walker's Emphasis on Womanism

This nine page essay explores the theme of womanism that characterizes both Alice Walker's life and her writings. Meaning and app...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Relationships

In five pages this paper examines how Celie's identity was molded by her relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. There ...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Differential Feminism in Morrison and Walker

This paper outlines the differences between views of feminism seen in Toni Morison's, Sula, and Alice Walker's, The Color Purple. ...

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker and Re-Vision

In seven pages re-vision is defined in concept and then associated with the womanism concept in an analysis of Alice Walker's In S...

The Color Purple

about life, meeting Shug who is her husbands lover. She grows stronger and more intelligent as the story progresses and in the end...