Alice Walker : a woman for our times /
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| Author / Creator: | Plant, Deborah G., 1956- author. |
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| Imprint: | Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC [2017] |
| Description: | xvii, 251 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women writers of color Women writers of color. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11330047 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section I. Earth Poem: "There Are Bad Women Walking on the Planet Now"
- 1. I Am the Earth...
- 2. For Six Years I Do Not Look Up
- 3. Everything Changed
- 4. A Spelman Girl
- 5. On My Own Terms
- Section II. Fire Poem: "A Message to Younger Sisters: Be Whole" by Phyllis McEwen
- 6. I Would Only Be the Philosopher
- 7. Changing the World
- 8. Meridian: Coming of Age in Mississippi
- 9. Thought at the Meridian
- 10. Truth Teller, Freedom Writer
- Section III. Air Poem: "The Clitoris Knows When and How" by Phyllis McEwen
- 11. Apologia: Honoring the Difficult
- 12. Helped Are Those Who Know
- 13. A Woman of One's Own: Womanist Philosophy and Revitalization of the Sovereign Feminine
- 14. The Sacred Masculine
- 15. The Gnostic Gospel of My Father's Smile
- Section IV. Water Poem: "My Body Is a Farm" (For My Son) by Phyllis McEwen
- 16. Mbele Aché
- 17. Sub Rosa No Longer: Our Daughters Have Mothers
- 18. Absolute Goodness
- 19. Why War Is Never a Good Idea
- 20. We Are the Ones
- Section V. Aether Poem: "Little Girls" by Phyllis McEwen
- 21. The Cathedral of the Future
- 22. Caritas: The Greatest of These
- 23. Ouroboros
- 24. "Alice" Is Old Greek for Truth
- 25. Lapis Philosophorum
- Notes
- Index
