TY - BOOK AU - Davis,Thadious M. TI - Understanding Alice Walker / T2 - Understanding contemporary American literature SN - 9781643362380 (paperback) AV - PS 3573 D264u 2021 U1 - 813/.54 PY - 2021///] CY - Columbia PB - The University of South Carolina Press KW - Walker, Alice, KW - Walker, Alice, KW - Novela estadounidense KW - Siglo XX KW - Literatura estadounidense N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; ch. 1; Understanding Alice Walker: The Sign Of The Family --; ch. 2; The Sight Of The Familiar: "I Love Myself ..." --; ch. 3; The Work Of The Woman: Coloring Purple --; ch. 4; The World Of The Word: Mediating Self N2 - Her writing, a rich amalgamation of the cutting-edge and popular, the new-age and difficult, continues to be paradigm shifting and among the most important produced in the last half of the twentieth century and among the most consistently prophetic in the first part of the twenty-first century ER -