Alice Walker

"Cast out alone/to/heal/and recreate/ourselves" : family-based identity in the work of Alice Walker / Peter Erickson

Walker's celebration of self in Southern generations / Thadious M. Davis

The Black woman artist as wayward / Barbara Christian

Walker's blues / Keith Byerman

The Color Purple: revisions and redefinitions / Mae G. Henderson

Walker's women / Susan Willis

Discourse of the other: The Third Life of Grange Copeland / W. Lawrence Hogue

Black matrilineage: the case of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston / Dianne F. Sadoff

"The changing same" : generational connections and Black women novelists / Deborah E. McDowell

The hoop of language: politics and the restoration of voice in Meridian / John F. Callahan

"Show me how to do like you" : didacticism and epistolary form in The Color Purple / Tamar Katz

Clytemnestra's children: writing (out) the mother's anger / Marianne Hirsch

Writing the subject: reading The Color Purple / Bell Hooks.

Biography of Alice Walker

Plot summary of Meridian

List of characters in Meridian

Critical views on Meridian

Marge Piercy on Meridian's saintly progress

New Yorker on the philosophy of Meridian

Michael G. Cooke on Walker's vision of the just person

Peter Erickson on the relationship between mother and daughter

Deborah E. McDowell on race and gender roles

Carol Rumens on racial equality and sexual justice

Thadious M. Davis on the creation of a personal identity

Barbara Christian on the myth of Black motherhood

Susan Willis on the radical potential of language

John F. Callahan on the idea of revolution

John F. Callahan on the aura of voice

Plot summary of The Color Purple

List of characters in The Color Purple

Critical views on The Color Purple

Gloria Steinem on storytelling style

Peter S. Prescott on redemptive love

Mel Watkins on folk voice

Robert Towers on the rhythms of dialect

Dinitia Smith on the Southern fictional tradition

Elizabeth Bartelme on growth and change

Trudier Harris on the Myth of the American Dream

Bettye J. Parker-Smith on sovereign women

George Stade on women and men

Gerald Early on ideological failure

Richard Wesley on Black men

Darryl Pinckney on the liberating bonds between Black women

Deborah E. McDowell on the linguistic experience

Bell Hooks on the erotic metaphysic.

Biography of Alice Walker / Bruce and Becky Durost Fish

In search of Alice Walker: an overview / Heather Alumbaugh

Alice Walker's life and work: the essays / Maria Lauret

Color me Zora: Alice Walker's (re)writing of the speakerly text / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Introduction / Harold Bloom

Alice Walker's men : profiles in the quest for love and personal values / Louis H. Pratt

"All saints should walk away" : the mystical pilgrimage of Meridian / Joseph A. Brown

Alice Walker : the achievement of the short fiction / Alice Hall Petry

Coming to voice in Alice Walker's Meridian : speaking out for the revolution / Lynn Pifer

Alice Walker's redemptive art / Felipe Smith

Alice Walker's vision of the south in The third life of Grange Copeland / Robert James Butler

Alice Walker : in praise of maternal heritage / Gail Keating

Alice Walker's The temple of my familiar as a pastiche / Bonnie Braendlin

Visual marker's : art and mass media in Alice Walker's Meridian / Deborah E. Barker

Teaching Alice Walker's "Everyday use" : employing race, class, and gender / Marcia Noe

Telling a critical story : Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens / Laurie McMillan

Reanimating the trope of the talking book in Alice Walker's "Strong horse tea" / Deborah Anne Hooker

Alice Walker chronology.