Alice Walker: Women's Issues Alice Term Paper

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Anything We Love Can be Saved: A Writer's Activism, (Walker 1997) is a collection of 33 speeches, letters and previously published pieces with the consistent theme of the political merging into the personal in her life. Michael Anderson, reviewing this book and mentioning a piece that Walker said "remains unwritten," states that "Ms. Walker's admirers can rejoice that her silence did not extend to book length." Pettis remarks that the essays in this collection suggest the far boundaries of Walker's activities. Marveling at her broad range of activism, she states "What this volume communicates with equal success is that Walker's intellectual and personal activism exceeds public demonstrations." Powells.com reviews her book thus: Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act," and that she was "speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics -- religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change."

In summary, Alice Walker has written many works, most of which are not reviewed here, brilliantly supporting black feminism and other dilemmas of the African-American woman, with a wealth of honest self-revelation that endears her to the hearts and minds of her readers.

Works Cited

Anderson, Michael. "Books in Brief: Anything We Love Can Be Saved." New York Times May 25, 1997, natl. ed. E4.Bradley, David. "Books: Novelist Alice Walker Telling the Black Woman's Story," New York Times January 8, 1984. natl. ed. E4

Fike, Matthew a. Jean Toomer and Okot p'Bitek in Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" - Critical Essay.

MELUS, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2000_Fall-Winter" Fall-Winter, 2000 www.findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qt=%22Matthew+a.+Fike%22" http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_24/ai_62350903

Hendrickson, Roberta M. "Remembering the Dream: Alice Walker, Meridian and the Civil Rights Movement."

MELUS, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_24" Fall, 1999. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_24/ai_62350903

Jokinen, Anniina. "Anniina's Alice Walker Page." 2006. http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/

Pettis, Joyce. "Anything We Love Can Be Saved Review." African-American Review, Winter 1999. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_4_33/ai_59024911.

Piercy, Marge. "Meridian." (Book Review). New York Times May 23, 1976, natl. ed.: E1.

Pollitt, Katha. '"Stretching the Short Story." New York Times. May 24, 1981. natl. ed. E1.

Synopses & Reviews: Anything We Love Can Be Saved." Powells.com. 2006. http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-0345407962-2

Walker, Alice. You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1982.

Anything We Love Can be Saved: A Writer's Activism. New York: A Ballantine Book, Random House, 1997.

In Search of Our Mothers' Garden. New York: Harcourt Brace 1984......