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  2. Everyday Use - Wikipedia

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    "Everyday Use" is a short story by Alice Walker. It was first published in the April 1973 issue of Harper's Magazine and is part of Walker's short story collection In Love and Trouble . Plot

  3. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - Wikipedia

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    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. [1]

  4. Womanism - Wikipedia

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    Womanism is a feminist movement, primarily championed by Black feminists, originating in the work of African American author Alice Walker in her 1983 book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. Walker coined the term "womanist" in the short story "Coming Apart" in 1979.

  5. Alice Walker - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. American author and activist (born 1944) For other people named Alice Walker, see Alice Walker (disambiguation). Alice Walker Walker in 2007 Born Alice Malsenior Walker (1944-02-09) February 9, 1944 (age 80) Eatonton, Georgia, U.S. Occupation Novelist short story writer poet political ...

  6. Stories that shaped history: essential classics by Black authors

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    NEW YORK – DECEMBER 01: (US TABS AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OUT) Author Alice Walker attends the Broadway opening of “The Color Purple” at the Broadway Theatre December 1, 2005 in New York City. ...

  7. ‘The Color Purple’ Review: Alice Walker’s Novel Lends Itself ...

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    Looking back, Spielberg did justice to Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-winning novel, but he also left room to expand and improve. Now, nearly four decades later, a rousing new version arrives from ...

  8. The most famous author from every state - AOL

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    Novelist, essayist, and poet Alice Walker was born in Putnam County, Georgia, in 1944 and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Her third novel, "The Color Purple," depicted the life and ...

  9. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Wikipedia

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    It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from the Olinka, (Alice Walker's fictional West African tribe) where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named Adam then leaves the Olinka because of the war.