Everyday use
By: Alice Walker ; edited, and with an introduction by Barbara T. Christian.
Contributors: Christian, Barbara, 1943-
Series: Women writers
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780813520759; 9780813520766
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction; Quiltmakers -- Fiction; Quilting -- Fiction; Quilts -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Barbara T. Christian; title: Chronology; title: Everyday use / Alice Walker; title: In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker; title: For my sister Molly who in the Fifties / Alice Walker; title: Interview with Alice Walker / John O'Brien; title: Critical essays.; title: An essay on Alice Walker / Mary Helen Washington; title: Alice Walker's celebration of self in Southern generations / Thadious M. Davis; title: Alice Walker : the black woman artist as wayward / Barbara T. Christian; title: Patches : quilts and community in Alice Walker's "Everyday use" / Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Charlotte Pierce-Baker; title: Sisters' choices: quilting aesthetics in contemporary African-American women's fiction / Margot Anne Kelley; title: Common threads / Elaine Showalter