The
Color Purple
Alice Walker (1944-
)
813
WAL Alice Walker: critical perspectives past
and present/edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah.
813
WAL The Same River Twice : honoring the
difficult : a meditation on life spirit, art, and the making of the film,
The color purple, ten years later / Alice Walker.
813
WAL Alice Walker/edited and with an
introduction by Harold Bloom.
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Dictionary of American Literary Biography (CDALB)
Broadening
Views 1968-1988 Detroit, MI: Gale Research c1989
V.6 p. 320-335
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AME American Writers: Collection of
Literary Biographies Supplement III Part 2
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Voices from the Gap
Women Writers of Color
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AliceWalker.html
Articles
generally available from colleges or through Interlibrary Loan for $1
Cutter, Martha J. Philomela speaks:Alice Walker’s revisioning of
rape archetypes in The Color Purple.
MELUS v. 25 no3/4 (Fall/Winter 2000) p. 161-80
Terry, Jill. The same river twice: signifying The color purple.
Critical Survey v. 12 no3 (2000) p. 59-76
Thyreen, Jeannine. Alice Walker's The color purple: redefining God and
(re)claiming the spirit within. Christianity &
Literature v. 49 no1 (Autumn 1999) p. 49-66
Lewis, Catherine E. Sewing, quilting, knitting: handicraft and freedom in The
color purple and A women's story. Literature/Film
Quarterly v. 29 no3 (2001) p. 236-45
Pifer, Lynn,; Slusser, Tricia. "Looking at the back of your head": mirroring
scenes in Alice Walker's The color purple and Possessing the secret of joy.
MELUS v. 23 no4 (Winter 1998) p. 47-57
Warren, Nagueyalti, :Wolff, Sally."Like the pupil of an eye": sexual blinding of
women in Alice Walker's works. The Southern Literary
Journal v. 31 no1 (Fall 1998) p. 1-16
Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught. The Hurston/Walker/Vaughn connection: feminist strategies
in American fiction. Women's Studies v. 28 no2 (Mar. '99)
p. 185-200
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