Walker, Alice

The Clan of the Cave Bear byjean M. Auel The Color Purple by Alice Walker... 

In Alice Walker s novel The Color Purple, does Celie have control over her destiny Explain your answer. 

A poet, essayist, novelist, editor, and teacher, Alice Walker is best known for her novel The Color Purple, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1982. Some of her other works include The Temple of My Familiar (1989), Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997), By the Light of My Father s Smile (1998), and The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000). The following selection comes from her 1983 collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. 

Alice Walker Beauty When the Other Dancer is the Self from IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS GARDENS WOMANIST PROSE, copyright 1983 by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc. 

Author Marilou Awiakta was raised near Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a nuclear research laboratory in Tennessee where her father worked. She is of Cherokee and Irish descent. This essay resulted from conversations the author had with writer Alice Walker. It details the author s concern with nuclear technology. 

Discovery of Antifungal Agents from Nafural Sources Virulence Facfor Targets 95 Alice M. Glark and Larry A. Walker... 

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