Everyday Use
Alice Walker
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1994
Summary
Alice Walker’s early story, ““Everyday Use,”” has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women’s culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women’s voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, ““Everyday Use”” anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780813520766 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0813520762 |
| Author: | Alice Walker, Barbara T. Christian |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
| Imprint: | Rutgers University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1994 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Women Writers: Texts and Contexts |
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About The Author
Alice Walker
BARBARA T. CHRISTIAN is a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Alice Walker and “The Color Purple”; Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers; and Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition 1892-1976.
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