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CritiCal Companion to Alice Walker CritiCal Companion to Alice Walker A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work Carmen Gillespie Critical Companion to Alice Walker: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work Copyright © 2011 by Carmen Gillespie All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Facts On File, Inc. An imprint of Infobase Learning 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gillespie, Carmen. Critical companion to Alice Walker / Carmen Gillespie. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8160-7530-0 (acid-free paper) ISBN 978-1-4381-3488-8 (e-book) 1. Walker, Alice, 1944– Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title. PS3573.A425Z66 2011 813'.54—dc22 2010018639 Facts On File books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Facts On File on the World Wide Web at http://www.infobaselearning.com Text design by Erika K. Arroyo Composition by Hermitage Publishing Services Cover printed by Yurchak Printing, Inc., Landisville, Pa. Book printed and bound by Yurchak Printing, Inc., Landisville, Pa. Date printed: April 2011 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. C ontents acknowledgments vii introduction ix part i: Biography 1 part ii: Works a to Z 19 novels 21 short Fiction 217 poetry Collections and selected individual poems 253 nonfiction Collections and selected individual essays 263 Children’s Books 283 selected nonfiction audio recordings 287 part iii: related people, places, and Topics 291 part iV: appendixes 409 Chronology of alice Walker’s life 411 selected awards and recognitions 415 Bibliography of Walker’s Works 416 Bibliography of secondary sources 418 index 436 A Cknowledgments Walking into the alice Walker exhibition had Beverly as a professor in graduate school, and at emory University in 2009 was a thrill- her mentorship, activism, and generous insights ing experience and a tremendous validation and still inspire. acknowledgment of the work that black women The details of Walker’s life and works are com- artists and scholars have accomplished. For all of plicated, and this volume would not have been the work that went into the exhibition and con- completed without the assistance, research, and tinues with the archives, i wish to thank rudolph contributions of the independent scholars Harold p. Byrd, sarah Quigley, and the staff of the alice Bakst and Vincent stephens, as well as the Buck- Walker archives at the special Collections of rob- nell University graduate students who worked with ert W. Woodruff library. i also thank them for their me on this project, Cara maria Cambardella, Han- generous grant of access and permission for me to nah Choi, and Kate parker. photograph and publish the pictures of archival These volumes take an enormous amount of materials displayed during the exhibition. time and energy to research, organize, and write. Thank you also to the alice Walker society, i apologize to my family for my absorption in this particularly to professor Beverly Guy-sheftall for task over the course of the last 28 months and her insights about Walker, spelman College, and for my neglect of you three. Harry, your support, ruby Doris smith-robinson, and for her invitation patience, and love in this, as in all things, makes it to attend the symposium. i was fortunate to have all possible. vii I ntroduCtIon in april 2009, emory University opened the alice ing of the archives, the establishment of this collec- Walker archives. The archives derive from the tion represents a landmark moment in the history collection of papers, photographs, and memorabilia of african-american women’s literary study. These that Walker had donated to the university in 2007. archives mark the success that african-american as the literary critic Cheryl Wall noted during the women writers have achieved in the struggle for daylong conference that accompanied the unveil- scholarly recognition of the narrative traditions Entrance to the Emory University Alice Walker Archives Exhibition (Photograph by Carmen Gillespie, courtesy of the Emory University Alice Walker Archives Exhibition, April 24, 2009) ix
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