Alice Walker : a woman for our times / Deborah G. Plant.
ISBN:
9780313377518
Title:
Alice Walker : a woman for our times / Deborah G. Plant.
Author:
Plant, Deborah G., 1956- author.
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages).
Series:
Women writers of color
Women writers of color.
Contents:
Section I. Earth poem: "There are bad women walking on the planet now." I am the earth. . . . -- For six years I do not look up -- Everything changed -- A Spelman girl -- On my own terms -- Section II. Fire poem: "A message to younger sisters: be whole." I Would Only Be the Philosopher -- Changing the world -- Meridian: coming of age in Mississippi -- Thought at the meridian -- Truth teller, freedom writer -- Section III. Air poem: "The clitoris knows when and how." Apologia: honoring the difficult -- Helped are those who know -- A woman of one's own: womanist philosophy and revitalization of the sovereign feminine -- The sacred masculine -- The Gnostic gospel of my father's smile -- Section IV. Water poem: "My body is a farm" (for my son)." Mbele Aché -- Sub rosa no longer: our daughters have mothers -- Absolute goodness -- Why war is never a good idea -- We are the ones -- Section V. Aether poem: "Little girls." The cathedral of the future -- Caritas: the greatest of these -- Ouroboros -- "Alice" is Old Greek for truth -- Lapis philosophorum.
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Electronic Resources
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
[2017]