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Alice Walker and Her Womanist Aesthetics


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1 Research Department of English, Vellalar College for Women (Autonomous), Erode, Tamilnadu, India
 

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.

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Class, Gender, Oppression, Race, Survival, Wholeness, Womanist Aesthetics.
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  • Lauret, M. Alice Walkers Life and Work: The Essays. Qtd from Tuzyline Jita Allan New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.

  • Ogunyemi, C.O. Womanism, The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English. Signs II. 1985. 163-180.

  • 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


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D. Bhagyathara
Research Department of English, Vellalar College for Women (Autonomous), Erode, Tamilnadu, India

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.

Keywords


Class, Gender, Oppression, Race, Survival, Wholeness, Womanist Aesthetics.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15613/hijrh%2F2015%2Fv2i1%2F78203