Alice Walker and Her Womanist Aesthetics
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Authors
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Research Department of English, Vellalar College for Women (Autonomous), Erode, Tamilnadu ,IN
D. Bhagyathara
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15613/hijrh/2015/v2i1/78203Keywords:
Class, Gender, Oppression, Race, Survival, Wholeness, Womanist Aesthetics.Abstract
Womanism emphasizes the ideals of black life by giving a balanced presentation of black womandom. Its objective is the dynamism of wholeness and self-healing. Alice Walker has evolved a working-base to envision her womanist aesthetics. It is outlined in In Search of our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) which provides for the womanists of today a model of womanist praxis.
References
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Walker, A. Anything We Love can be Saved: A Writers Activism. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
In Search of our Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose. London: Women’s Press, 1983.
The Black Womans Story. The New York Times Magazine. 1984 Feb 12. Available: www.nytimes.com
