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50books_pocThis anthology contains articles, reflective pieces and book reviews written between 1966 and 1982. Reading it is like listening to a radio station that keeps fading in and out. I can hear Walker responding to others, but the other voices have faded out of reception.
Many of the pieces are responses to articles originally published elsewhere - Without the background it's quite hard to grasp the argument. She is passionately conducting a conversation, but all i hear is one part.
The ones that make the most sense are the book reviews. They were intended as introductions to work that the reader is not familiar with, so they stand alone.
I think this collection would be more valuable to readers intimately familiar with the personalities of the women's liberation movement and the civil rights movement in the US in the 1970s.
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, 1984
Many of the pieces are responses to articles originally published elsewhere - Without the background it's quite hard to grasp the argument. She is passionately conducting a conversation, but all i hear is one part.
The ones that make the most sense are the book reviews. They were intended as introductions to work that the reader is not familiar with, so they stand alone.
I think this collection would be more valuable to readers intimately familiar with the personalities of the women's liberation movement and the civil rights movement in the US in the 1970s.
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, 1984
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Oh, for hyperlinks and trackbacks!
Date: 2008-12-13 02:04 am (UTC)Re: Oh, for hyperlinks and trackbacks!
Date: 2008-12-13 07:34 am (UTC)Others don't specify. For instance, there is a letter to the editors of Ms for 1974 but no background on what she is responding to (beyond what is in what she has written of course).
Re: Oh, for hyperlinks and trackbacks!
Date: 2008-12-21 05:37 am (UTC)LOL. I remember that piece. We still have that issue... somewhere. There is a lot of background to that drama.
there is a letter to the editors of Ms for 1974
Probably Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem.