Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. ... Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" embodies some aspects that are found in Walker's and Marshall's essays. ... Walker and Marshall also write about their search for independence as black women. ... Walker defines the creative spirit as an expression of the black woman through everyday t...

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These specific pieces of work became a great influence on well-known writers such as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara. Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. ... If it was not for Walker resurrecting Hurston's literature, it would have never gotten to be appreciated in today's world (Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston's Transforming Visions). ... The writer who had made such a statement during her lifetime was buried in an...

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Walker embodies the fact that we are all beautiful in our own way and, although it may be hard she suggests we accept it no matter what. ... Alice Walker embodies the fact that we need to accept our appearance to help us strive to be authentic because if we don't how can we accept ourselves and how can we gain a sense of self if we can't even accept our on appearance. ... "It was fun being cute once" (Walker). ... " (Walker). ... "(Walker). ...

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The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African-American arts, with middle and upper-class blacks as the dominant leaders. Poetry has never celebrated pride in African-American culture more than that period in the 20"s. The reasons behind the outburst of artists, ways in which the written word w...

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What I have learned from the book Their Eyes Were Watching God. Since I have been old enough to read the question has always come up whenever I finished a book, what did you learn from your reading? Of course the answer would always be nothing whether I learned something or not, because I never...

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