Title: In Search of Our Mother's Garden
First published: October 1984
Description: In this, her first collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
Subjects: Biography, American Authors, Feminism, African American women, African American authors, Afro-American women, African American women authors, Mujeres, Biographies, Écrivains américains, Autores americanos, Noires américaines, Derechos de la mujer, Féminisme, Biografía, American essays, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Frauenliteratur, Black women, Walker, alice, 1944-, Authors, american, Essays (single author), Womanism
Places: United States
People: Alice Walker (1944-)
Time periods: 20th century, Siglo XX, 20e siècle