In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Alice Walker

416 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the...

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reflective 87%
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tense 6%

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