In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alice Walker
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 131
Category/GenreLiterary essays
ISBN/Barcode 9780753819609
ClassificationsDewey:818.5408
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 20 October 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and how they nourish the present. Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking writers through history - from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O'Connor. She also looks back at the highs and lows of the civil rights movement, her early political development, and the place of women's traditions in art. Coining the expression 'womanist prose', these are essays that value women's culture and strength, and the handing on of the creative spark from one generation to another.

Author Biography

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including Meridian, By the Light of My Father's Smile and The Third Life of Grange Copeland.