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Walker, Alice By the Light of My Fathers Smile
Random House~trade 965664791 N Paperback
Amazon.com&newline;The Mundo are a new tribe, created by the intermingling of escaped Black slaves and native Indians in the Mexican Sierras. Ineligible for academic funding, a husband-and-wife team of African American anthropologists pose as Christian missionaries to secure sponsorship to live among the Mundo and study their culture. This soul-stifling deception underlies the family tragedy at the heart of Alice Walker's novel, her first in six years. The father, preaching the message of his puritanical Protestant sponsors, is &doublequote;sucked into the black cloth&doublequote; of Christianity and blinded to the Mundo's life-affirming ways. When he discovers his daughter Magdalena's affair with a young Mundo, he beats her with a belt, thus estranging himself from both her and the younger daughter, Susannah. The first of several narrative voices to speak is his. Dead, he has become an &doublequote;angel&doublequote; who observes his daughters from the &doublequote;other side&doublequote; and seeks to make amends for the pain he inflicted on them in life. &newline;&newline;It is the conceit of By the Light of My Father's Smile that angels have complete access to the consciousness of the living beings they observe. One of the book's very first scenes involves the ebullient lovemaking of Susannah and her partner, Pauline, reported in sweaty detail by the angelic paternal voyeur. Highly explicit, this set piece is a kind of guerrilla assault on our sensibilities, preparing us to receive Walker's urgent message--that sexuality and spirituality are inextricable, that denying one causes the other to atrophy as well. The blessings of fathers are, according to this canon, essential to the sexual flowering and spiritual maturity of their female offspring. It is in the loss, the conferring, and the claiming of these blessings that the novel finds its narrative thrust.&newline;&newline;By the Light of My Father's Smile is intended perhaps less as a story than as a parable presenting Walker's cosmology for the new millennium--one that synthesizes ancient and modern wisdoms in a way that's as artistically daring as it is politically correct: Sex is good, repression is evil. Dominant is bad, distaff is good. European culture is dead meat, the third world is wise, there is ongoing commerce between the living and the dead, great orgasms shall set us free. Many readers will agree that a world built upon these precepts surely would be preferable to the one we now inhabit. Here, as in previous fictions, Walker the storyteller is spellbinding, Walker the preacher-theorist, less so. On the other hand, what other novelist risks so bravely or with such generosity, and seeks to give so much? With the proper mindset, Walker assures us, anyone can become a member of the Mundo tribe. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;A passionate but somewhat misguided polemic against the abuses of patriarchy, Walker's first novel since Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) tells the story of two daughters who overcome the sexual repression forced on them by their anthropologist father. In the early 1940s, the Robinson family travels to rural Mexico, where Mr. Robinson (who, unnamed, narrates most of the novel from beyond the grave) and his wife, Langley, are studying a doomed people known as the Mundo, the wise, egalitarian descendants of escaped slaves and Indians. The central event of the book comes when Mr. Robinson, ordinarily a gentle man, finds his 15-year-old daughter Magdalena having sex with a local boy, Manuelito, and beats her, in a scene witnessed by Magdalena's younger sister, Susannah. To the relief of Mr. Robinson's repentant ghost, both daughters find ways of fulfilling themselves despite this trauma: after an encounter with a fortune-telling dwarf (the village outcast in the native home of Susannah's Greek husband), Susannah leaves her husband and enters into a loving lesbian relationship; Magdalena, now a hugely obese academic, bumps into Manuelito (now an alcoholic, crippled, impotent Vietnam vet) on an airplane and, against all odds?in the book's one disappointingly reti
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Walker, Alice Color Purple
Washington Square Press Jun-83 671526022 N Paperback
Book Description&newline;This critically acclaimed modern American novel is analyzed and summarized, and Alice Walker's distinct writing style is discussed. Titles in this growing series for middle school and high school students analyze novels and plays that are included in most schools' English Lit. curricula. Literature Made Easy books are more than plot summaries. They analyze characters, explain themes, and point out details that make each author's writing style unique. Each book also features &doublequote;Mind Maps&doublequote;-diagrams that summarize the work's most important details and serve as stimuli to help students focus their ideas for exams and term papers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. &newline;&newline;The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature&newline;Novel by Alice Walker, published in 1982. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983. A feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment, the novel was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Alice Walker Sally Hemings
New York Viking Press 1979 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Fine Fair
DJ is worn and has tear on headband, creases. Woven into this rich and complex narrative of love and enslavement between Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress of 38 years, and mother of some of his children, is the story of the early Republic, and three salient themes: the rebellion of Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner, murders of George Wythe and of George, the Lewis slave in Kentucky, and the survival of Sally Hemings.
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Walker, Alice You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Harvest Books 5-Mar-82 156997789 N Paperback
Book Description&newline;A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. &doublequote;[Walker] shrinks from no moral or emotional complexity, and she writes consummately skillful short stories&doublequote; (Alice Adams, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle).
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