Alice Walker

Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose is a collection composed of 36 separate pieces written by Alice Walker. The essays, articles, reviews, statements, and speeches were written between 1966 and 1982. Many are based on her understanding of "womanist" theory. Walker defines "womanist" at …

Prompted by misguided loyalty to the customs of her people, Tashi Johnson, a tribal African woman living in North America, endures a severely traumatizing tribal initiation rite of passage, an experience that affects her sense of identity. Reprint.

The Temple of My Familiar is a 1989 novel by Alice Walker. It is an ambitious and multi-narrative novel containing the interleaved stories of Arveyda, a musician in search of his past; Carlotta, his Latin American wife who lives in exile from hers; Suwelo, a black professor of American History who realizes that his …

La Couleur pourpre est un roman épistolaire écrit par Alice Walker, publié en 1982. Le roman obtient le prix Pulitzer de la fiction et le National Book Award en 1983. Il est adapté au cinéma par Steven Spielberg, sous le titre La Couleur pourpre, en 1985, et en comédie musicale, La Couleur pourpre de Gary Griffin, en …