Alice Walker
Alice Walker is a prolific writer of the twenty-first century who is both influential and an activist within the African-American community. Walker’s prior works have caused much debate within society. However, Walker kept writing the same sorts of literature while being criticized for what was being written by her. Through this controversy, Walker was still able to get past this time and publish many other pieces of work. One work that was published was, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” Within this essay, Alice Walker discuses these authors as well as quotes to show their significance within their place among society.
“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” argues for slave women and the generations of unprivileged women the only form of artistic expression available to them was their daily life. In the ordinary tasks of cooking, sewing, and growing food, tasks on which their survival depended, these women found a way to express the yearnings of the soul for hope......
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