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    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "Women"
    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "Women"
    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "Women"
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    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "Women"

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    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "Women," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535843294
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      Women

      Alice Walker

      1973

      Introduction

      Alice Walker's poem Women was written in 1970 and first published in her second volume of poetry Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973), in a chapter titled In These Dissenting Times. Women celebrates the African American women of earlier generations, those who struggled and made sacrifices and whose efforts benefited the women of Walker's generation. Walker uses Women to honor the women of her mother's generation and to remind her readers that a woman's success is also measured by the hard work of her ancestors. This poem is Walker's attempt to keep alive the memories of these earlier women, as an inspiration to later generations. Women is a twenty-six-line, free verse poem, with short lines consisting of only one to five words and no punctuation until the concluding line, when the one-sentence poem ends with a period. Women was included in Walker's 1974 essay, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, which was later included in a collection of her essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, published in 1983. Walker also included the poem in Her Blue Body Everything We Know; Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete, published in 1991.

      Author Biography

      Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 1944. She was the youngest of eight children born to Winnie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker. Walker's parents were sharecroppers, and while the family was poor, Walker describes her childhood as happy until a BB gun accident at age eight, when Walker was accidentally shot in the right eye by one of her brothers. The damage caused a scar and resulted in significant teasing at school, causing Walker to be withdrawn and to isolate

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