Suggestions for Further Reading
Bloom, Harold, ed. Alice
Walker. New York: Chelsea
House, 1989.
Dieke, Ikenna, ed. Critical
Essays on Alice Walker. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, 1999.
Kaplan, Carla. The
Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms. Oxford
University Press: Oxford, 1996.
Light, Alison. “Fear of
the Happy Ending: The Color Purple, Reading and
Racism.” In English and Cultural Studies, ed. M. Green.
London: Chelsea House, 1987.
Smith, Dinita. “Celie,
You a Tree.” Nation, September 4, 1982.
Walker, Alice. In
Search of our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. New York:
Harvest Books, 1983.
———. The Same River Twice: Honoring the
Difficult. New York: Washington Square Press, 1997.
