ESSAYS
In Search of Our Mothers'
Gardens (1983)
essays
Living By the Word (1988) essays
Warrior Marks (1991) essays and Warrior Marks: Female Genital
Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (1991) documentary
with Pratibha Parmar
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) essays
Anything We Love Can Be
Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997) essays
The Same River Twice: Honoring
the Difficult, 1996
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describes through essays and journal entries the loss of her
beloved mother, the break-up of her 13-year relationship with Robert Allen,
her own battle with lymes disease and depression, and her awakening sense
of bi-sexuality |
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens,
1983
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Walker explores the theories and practices of feminists and
feminism, incorporating what she calls the "womanist" tradition
of black women. And in a vivid and courageous memoir she tells of a scarring
childhood injury and her daughter's healing words." |
Warrior Marks
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved:
A Writer's Activism, 1997
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about religion and spirit, writing and language, families
and identity, politics and social change |
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