num_pages: 96
description: An essay exploring how Walker's novel The Color Purple represents the complex and often contradictory attitudes about mothering described by African-American mothering theorists.
language: English
title: Producing A Womanist Text: The Maternal As Signifier In Alice Walker's The Color Purple
titlecomplete: Producing A Womanist Text: The Maternal As Signifier In Alice Walker's The Color Purple
ratings_count: 2
publisher: English Literary Studies Monograph Series