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    Everyday Use
    Alice Walker

    Alice Walker (Author), Barbara T. Christian (Edited by)

    9780813520766

    Paperback / softback, published 1 June 1994

    240 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg

    Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers.

    This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington.

    Introduction - Barbara T. Christian
    Chronology
    Everyday Use - Alice Walker
    Background to the Story:
    In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - Alice Walker
    For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties - Alice Walker
    Interview with Alice Walker - John O'Brien

    Critical Essays:
    An Essay on Alice Walker - Mary Helen Washington
    Alice Walker's Celebration of Self in Southern Generations - Thadious M. Davis
    Alice Walker: The Black Woman as an Artist - Barbara T. Christian
    Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' - Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-Baker
    Sisters' Choices: Quilting Aesthetics in Contemporary African-American Women's Fiction - Margot Anne Kelley
    Common Threads - Elaine Showalter

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