About This Volume / Nagueyalti Warren -- On Alice Walker / Nagueyalti Warren -- Biography of Alice Walker / Sally Wolff -- Alice Walker : Critical Reception / Lillie P. Howard -- Critical Lens : Five Critics on Alice Walker / Napolita Hooper-Simanga -- Cultural and Historical Context / Carmen R. Gillespie -- Pushing Gender Scripts and Color Lines in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Sapphire's Push / Ciara Miller -- "But Where Was the Man in Me" Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Meridian and We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For : Alice Walker's Evolving Vision of the Spiritual Warrior / Shirley Toland-Dix -- Looking for God : Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day / Paula C. Barnes -- Walker's Womanist Agenda / Brenda J. Young -- Spiritual Colonialism / Deborah Plant -- The Myopic Eye in Alice Walker's "The Flowers" / Antoinette Brim -- Sexuality and the Healing of the Self: The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and By the Light of My Father's Smile / Karla Kovalova -- Living Spaces for Learning in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar /Toni Wynn -- Participant, Witness, Activist: Alice Walker's Novels in Historical Context -- Possessing the Secret of Metaphor: Alice Walker's Poetics of Self-Recovery / Opal Moore Euterpe's Daughter: Ecological/Political/Sociological Poetics of Alice Walker / Gerri Bates -- Alice Walker's Essays, Speeches, and Conversations / Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper -- Resources : Chronology of Alice Walker's Life; Works by Alice Walker; Bibliography.