Critical Companion to Alice Walker: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work
Carmen GillespieHow to Use This Book part i of this volume offers an overview of alice Walker’s life and career. part ii provides detailed examinations of her work, with separate sections covering her novels, short stories, poetry, nonfiction, children’s books, and audio recordings. each entry on a major work of fiction contains subentries describing the individual characters in the work. part iii includes entries on people, places, and topics that are important to Walker’s work. They cover biographical background and historic, literary, and intellectual influences. Throughout the text, references to entries in part iii are presented in Small Capital letterS to denote the reference. part iV contains a chronology of Walker’s life and bibliographies of her works and of secondary sources. Critical information appears in two or more locations to ensure consistency and accessibility.