Walker, Alice

1. Abbandonato, Linda. "A View from 'Elsewhere': Subversive Sexuality and the Rewriting of the Heroine's Story in The Color Purple." In PMLA, Vol. 106, No. 5, Octo. 1991, pp. 1106-1115.
   Criticism -- The Color Purple

2. In Barthold, Bonnie J. Black Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. pp. 127-35.
   Criticism -- Meridian

3. In Bloom, Harold, ed. Contemporary black American fiction writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995. pp. 154-69.
   Biography
   Criticism -- Works -- Meridian -- The Third Life of Grange Copeland --The Color Purple

4. In Braxton, Joanne M., and McLaughlin, Andrée Nicola, ed. Wild women in the whirlwind: Afra-American culture and the contemporary literary renaissance. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990. pp. 231-37, 308-14, 363-78.
   Criticism -- Works -- The Color Purple

5. In Callahan, John F. In the African-American grain: call-and-response in twentieth century black fiction. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1990. pp. 73, 103, 217-54, 257.
   Criticism -- Meridian -- The Color Purple

6. In Cooke, Michael G. Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1984. See index.
   Criticism -- Works --

7. In Diedrich, Maria. Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. pp. 228-254.
   Criticism -- Possessing the Secret of Joy

8. In Gates, Henry Louis. The signifying monkey: a theory of Afro-American literary criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. pp. 131, 239-58.
   Criticism -- The Color Purple

9. In Gruesser, John Cullen. Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing About Africa. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2000. pp. 151-157.
   Criticism -- Works --

10. In Hernton, Calvin C. The sexual mountain and Black women writers: adventures in sex, literature, and real life. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1987. pp. 2-35, 158-59.
    Criticism -- The Color Purple

11. In Lim, Shirley, and Ling, Amy, ed. Reading the literatures of Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. pp. 163-89.
    Criticism -- The Color Purple

12. In McDowell, Deborah. "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c1995. pp. 34-57.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Color Purple

13. McGowan, Martha. "Atonement and Release in Alice Walker's Meridian." Critique, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1981, pp. 25-36.
    Criticism -- Meridian

14. In Millard, Kenneth. Contemporary American Fiction. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. pp. 70-77.
    Criticism -- The Color Purple

15. In Miller, Jane. Women writing about men. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. pp. 241-45, 248-49.
    Criticism -- General -- The Color Purple

16. In Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman, ed. Women writers of the contemporary South. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984. pp. 39-53, 317-18.
    Criticism -- Works -- Meridian -- The Color Purple -- The Third Life of Grange Copeland
    Bibliography

17. In Prescott, Peter S. Never in doubt: critical essays on American books. New York: Arbor House, 1986. pp. 75-77.
    Criticism -- The Color Purple

18. Proudfit, Charles. "Celie's Search for Identity: a Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker's The Color Purple." In Contemporary Literature, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp. 12-37.
    Criticism -- The Color Purple

19. In Pryse, Marjorie, and Spillers, Hortense J., eds. Conjuring: black women, fiction, and literary tradition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. See index.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Color Purple -- In Search of Our Mother's Gardens -- Meridian -- The Third Life of Grange Copeland -- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

20. In Rainwater, Catherine, and Scheick, William J., eds. Contemporary American women writers. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1985. pp. 155-171.
    Criticism -- The Color Purple -- Meridian
    Bibliography

21. In Robinson, Lillian, ed. Modern Women Writers, Volume 3. New York : Continuum, 1996. pp. 534-545.
    Criticism -- Works

22. Steinem, Gloria. "Do You Know This Woman? She Knows You: A Profile of Alice Walker." In MS., Vol. 10, No. 2, June 1982, pp. 35, 37, 89-94.
    Biography

23. In Stripling, Mahala Yates. Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005. pp. 120-134.
    Criticism -- Possessing the Secret of Joy

24. In Wachtel, Eleanor. More Writers & Company. Toronto : Vintage Canada, 1997. pp. 150-162.
    Criticism -- Interviews

25. In Wade-Gayles, Gloria Jean. No crystal stair: visions of race and sex in Black women's fiction. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1984. pp. 62-67, 102-113, 128-136, 184-86, 199-214, 216.
    Criticism -- Works -- Meridian -- The Color Purple -- The Third Life of Grange Copeland

26. In Wall, Cheryl A., ed. Changing our own words: essays on criticism, theory, and writing by Black women. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989. pp. 81-82, 88-93, 140-48.
    Criticism -- Works -- Child Who Favored Daughter -- The Color Purple -- Source

27. Wesley, Richard. "The Color Purple Debate: Reading Between the Lines." In MS. , Vol. 15, No. 3, Sept. 1986, pp. 62, 90-92.
    Criticism -- The Color Purple

28. In Wisker, Gina. Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing. New York : St. Martin's Press, c2000. pp. 75-89.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Color Purple -- Meridian -- Possessing the Secret of Joy -- The Temple of My Familiar

29. Wolcott, James. "Party of Animals." In New Republic, Vol. 200, No. 22, May 1989, pp. 28-30.
    Criticism -- The Temple of My Familiar

30. Zinn, Christopher. "Review of The Temple of My Familiar." In America, vol. 161, No. 4, Aug. 1989, pp. 90-92.
    Criticism -- The Temple of My Familiar

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