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    <title>Understanding Alice Walker</title>
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    <namePart>Davis, Thadious M.</namePart>
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    <publisher>The University of South Carolina Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>[2021]</dateIssued>
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    <extent>163 pages ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Her writing, a rich amalgamation of the cutting-edge and popular, the new-age and difficult, continues to be paradigm shifting and among the most important produced in the last half of the twentieth century and among the most consistently prophetic in the first part of the twenty-first century.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Understanding Alice Walker: The Sign Of The Family -- ch. 2 The Sight Of The Familiar: "I Love Myself ..." -- ch. 3 The Work Of The Woman: Coloring Purple -- ch. 4 The World Of The Word: Mediating Self.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Thadious M. Davis.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Criticism and interpretation</topic>
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      <namePart>Walker, Alice</namePart>
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    <topic>Crítica e interpretación</topic>
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    <topic>Novela estadounidense</topic>
    <temporal>Siglo XX</temporal>
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    <topic>Literatura estadounidense</topic>
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