The same idea as in Cathedral is weaved throughout Alice Walker's piece entitled Everyday Use. In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage, Walker articulates what has since become two central themes in her writing: the importance of the quilt in her work and the creation of African American Southern women as subjects in their own right. ... Johnson snatches her ancestors' quilts from her daughter Dee, who wants to hang them on a wall, and gives them to Maggie, Walker illuminates her life-long celebration of rural Southern ...

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