In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (2003) by Alice Walker

Description

In this, Alice Walker’s first published collection of nonfiction, she writes as a Black woman, a mother, and a feminist.

Inside are 36 pieces in total ranging from the personal to the political, including essays about other writers, accounts of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter’s words of healing.

Throughout the volume, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminists and feminism, incorporating what she calls the “womanist” tradition of Black women.

About the Author

Alice Walker (1944- ) is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist. Her books include seven novels, three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, and several children’s books. Her novel The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Prize (in 1983) and the National Book Award (in 1985), and her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker currently lives in northern California.