Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor)

Reviews and essays offer critical examinations of Alice Walker's works and the manner in which they address the struggles of Black women

368 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1993

About the author

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is well-known as a literary critic, an editor of literature, and a proponent of black literature and black cultural studies.