Fiction of Alice Walker

Alice (Malsenior) Walker (9th Feb. 1944 - ) is a highly regarded contemporary novelist, presently occupying a singularly unique position in African American literature. Critical work continues to appear on her writings implying that the meanings and implications of her works are almost inexhaustible. In comparison to the existing critical corpus, this book discusses and analyses Walker's fiction on an entirely different plane in its deeper thematic - symbolic levels. This particular addition to Walker studies is based on a theoretical framework of three black images suggested by Joan Cannady in Black Images in American Literature, as further developed and extended by the author. University Colleges prescribing courses (especially Alice Walker's The COlor Purple) on COntemporary Literature, New Literatures in English or Post-colonial Literatures will find this book a handy reader's guide. THe book is also a ready reference tool for students researchers, colleagues and critics.