{"product_id":"everyday-use-women-writers-alice-walker-women-writers-texts-and-contexts-9780813520766","title":"Everyday Use Women Writers Alice Walker Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Walker's early story, Everyday Use, has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, Everyday Use anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of Everyday Use and of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - Barbara T. Christian\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Everyday Use - Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003e Background to the Story:\u003cbr\u003e In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003e For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties - Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003e Interview with Alice Walker - John O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Critical Essays:\u003cbr\u003e An Essay on Alice Walker - Mary Helen Washington\u003cbr\u003e Alice Walker's Celebration of Self in Southern Generations - Thadious M. Davis\u003cbr\u003e Alice Walker: The Black Woman as an Artist - Barbara T. Christian\u003cbr\u003e Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' - Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-Baker\u003cbr\u003e Sisters' Choices: Quilting Aesthetics in Contemporary African-American Women's Fiction - Margot Anne Kelley\u003cbr\u003e Common Threads - Elaine Showalter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Permissions","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405772071255,"sku":"9780813520766","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813520766.jpg?v=1730493559","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/everyday-use-women-writers-alice-walker-women-writers-texts-and-contexts-9780813520766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}