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Alice Walker Recent Titles in the Women Writers of Color Series Joanne M. Braxton, S eries Editor Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters Mary Jane Lupton June Jordan: Her Life and Letters Valerie Kinloch Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit Deborah G. Plant Border Crossings and Beyond: The Life and Works of Sandra Cisneros Carmen Haydée Rivera Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography Virginia C. Fowler Tracks on a Page: Louise Erdrich, Her Life and Works Frances Washburn A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist Linda Janet Holmes WOMEN WRITERS OF COLOR Alice Walker A Woman for Our Times Deborah G. Plant Joanne M. Braxton, Series Editor Copyright © 2017 by Deborah G. Plant All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Plant, Deborah G., 1956– author. Title: Alice Walker : a woman for our times / Deborah G. Plant. Description: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2017. | Series: Women writers of color | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017016395 (print) | LCCN 2017029393 (ebook) | ISBN 9780313377518 (ebook) | ISBN 9780313377501 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Walker, Alice, 1944– | Authors, American—20th century— Biography. | African American women authors—Biography. | Civil rights workers—United States—Biography Classification: LCC PS3573.A425 (ebook) | LCC PS3573.A425 Z85 2017 (print) | DDC 813/.54 [B]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017016395 ISBN: 978-0-313-37750-1 EISBN: 978-0-313-37751-8 21 20 19 18 17 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available as an eBook. Praeger An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 www.abc-clio.com This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America For My Sister Gloria Jean Plant Gilbert This page intentionally left blank Contents Series Foreword by Joanne M. Braxton xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Section I. Earth Poem: “There Are Bad Women Walking on the Planet Now” by Phyllis McEwen One I Am the Earth. . . . 5 Two For Six Years I Do Not Look Up 13 Three Everything Changed 19 Four A Spelman Girl 25 Five On My Own Terms 33 Section II. Fire Poem: “A Message to Younger Sisters: Be Whole” by Phyllis McEwen Six I Would Only Be the Philosopher 41 Seven Changing the World 49 viii Contents Eight Meridian : Coming of Age in Mississippi 57 Nine Thought at the Meridian 67 Ten Truth Teller, Freedom Writer 77 Section III. Air Poem: “The Clitoris Knows When and How” by Phyllis McEwen Eleven Apologia: Honoring the Diffi cult 89 Twelve Helped Are Those Who Know 97 Thirteen A Woman of One’s Own: Womanist Philosophy and Revitalization of the Sovereign Feminine 107 Fourteen The Sacred Masculine 117 Fifteen The Gnostic Gospel of My Father’s Smile 127 Section IV. Water Poem: “My Body Is a Farm” (For My Son) b y Phyllis McEwen Sixteen Mbele Aché 143 Seventeen Sub Rosa No Longer: Our Daughters Have Mothers 153 Eighteen Absolute Goodness 163 Nineteen Why War Is Never a Good Idea 171 Twenty We Are the Ones 177 Section V. Aether Poem: “Little Girls” by Phyllis McEwen Twenty-One The Cathedral of the Future 187 Twenty-Two Caritas: The Greatest of These 195 Twenty-Three Ouroboros 203 Contents ix Twenty-Four “Alice” Is Old Greek for Truth 213 Twenty-Five Lapis Philosophorum 217 Notes 219 Index 245
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