The Color Purple

Alice Walker   (1944-     )

 

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WAL     Alice Walker: critical perspectives past and present/edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah. New York: Amistad c1993

 

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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.

New York: Scribner, c1996

 

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WAL     Alice Walker/edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, c1989.

 

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810.9

CON     The Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography (CDALB)

Broadening Views 1968-1988 Detroit, MI: Gale Research c1989

V.6 p. 320-335

 

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810.9

AME      American Writers: Collection of Literary Biographies Supplement III Part 2

 New York: Charles Scribner’s and Sons c1991

p.517-540

 

 

 

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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