Critical Essays on Alice Walker
Subtitle: (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: November 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780313300127
Subjects: Black studies; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Walker, Alice - Prose & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - African American; American - African American & Black; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Walker, Alice; American - General; 1944-; 20th century; African Americans in literature; Criticism and interpretation; History; United States; Walker, Alice,; Women and literature
First sentence: By entitling her article "Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness," Elaine Showalter presents feminist criticism-which she renames "gynocritics" (335)-as a unique phenomenon which sprang in the empty desert of theory about women.