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Original Title:	In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose ASIN B006W2V1XK
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Lillian Smith Book Award (1984)

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Alice Walker

Kindle Edition | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 7003 Users | 160 Reviews

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This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and how they nourish the present.

Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking writers through history - from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O'Connor. She also looks back at the highs and lows of the civil rights movement, her early political development, and the place of women's traditions in art.

Coining the expression 'womanist prose', these are essays that value women's culture and strength, and the handing on of the creative spark from one generation to another.

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Title	:	In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
Author	:	Alice Walker
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	December 29th 2011 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (first published 1983)
Categories	:	Feminism. Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Cultural. African American. Race

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Ratings: 4.25 From 7003 Users | 160 Reviews

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A book of essays by Ms. Walker, who is one of my favorite authors. My favorite ones are the ones with reference to Zora Neale Hurston. This if full of ideas that may usually be linked to feminism, but Walker instead coins the term "womanism" as she feels black women were left out of the feminist movement dominated by white women.

A 3.5/5 since I couldn't finish the whole book and have to base my review on the first 35% of the book that I read, and because Walker is one of my favourite.This book is a collection of essays, lectures and works of criticisms and focuses on so many diverse things as her inspirations and authors she grew up with, her changed relationships with them and their memories, the essays about Flannery O'Connor and Jean Toomer were great! It felt like getting to know Alice better, and I loved that. I

I do not remember anything about this book except one lesson I learned from it: Envisoning your future is the key to overcoming your obstacles. This one factor has been key to the nature of my existence changing from surviving to thriving. Thank you Ms. Alice Walker.

every time i read this it is a different book. this time it was about a black woman in a very particular political/historical moment, between kennedy and reagan, exploring feminism, facing up to old ghosts, and maybe most importantly researching, hunting up hurston and grimke to feed a hunger for ancestors.

Where to start...an essential read for everyone. The title essay mind shifting completely. I have many pages earmarked for future readings of which there will be many.

Alice Walker's life and writing legacy intrigues me. I stayed with this book longer than I normally would have, since some parts of me couldn't let it go. Walker always seems to speak to my experience, to my trajectory, and her words both console and exhort. Yet she's speaking to a larger audience, to America, to the world. For her career starts from Georgia to Mississippi, to California and Cuba, to sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. Like Baldwin and Hughes, she was well-traveled, so when she spoke

I need to re-read this to assign stars (how presumptuous that appears in the face of this sort of book). This collection helped shape the better part of my teenage self, though I wonder if I found validation for my habits (say, "Everyday Use") a bit too conveniently. Regardless of my possible shortcomings in using the works to identify myself, I still feel grateful to Walker for getting her writings into the public's hands.