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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

"Everyday Use" in Short Stories for Students by Kathleen Wilson (Editor)
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780787636067
Publication Date: 1997
Contains concise synopses of the story's plots, characters and themes along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism.
"Everyday Use" (Women's Writers series) by Alice Walker; Barbara T. Christian (Introduction by); Barbara Christian (Editor)
Call Number: PS3573 .A425 E9 1994
ISBN: 0813520754
Publication Date: 1994-06-01
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography.

Destroying to Save: Idealism and Pragmatism in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" by Joe Sarnowski
The article offers criticism on the short story "Everyday Use" by African-American author Alice Walker. The author focuses on themes of idealism and pragmatism in the story and discusses the character of Hakim as a Black Muslim, the character of Dee/Wangero as the antagonist, and the characters of Maggie and the mother.
Heritage and deracination in Walker's 'Everyday Use.' by David Cowart.
Alice Walker's short story 'Everyday Use' examines the issue of how African Americans become separated from what culturally defines them. The main character's intelligence blinds her to the importance of ordinary objects as cultural markers. The alternative to such a narrow view is a living tradition that preserves heritage.
The defence mechanisms and the core issues of Dee in Alice Walker's Everyday Use by Sadia Munir
The researcher has described and deeply analyzed the character of Dee through psychoanalysis in terms of defence mechanisms and the core issues

Alice Walker: Everyday Use
Maggie sees the old family quilt—an heirloom already promised to her—as something with practical utility as well as tradition. Her educated, social activist sister wants to hang it on the wall as folk art. With whom will their mother side?
Alice Walker: A Stitch in Time
What were Alice Walker's motivations in writing "Everyday use?" In this program the author discusses her short story with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White. Over the course of the interview, Walker talks about the autobiographical aspects of the story, the significance of quilting to African-American women, the perception of class differences, and the important life lessons she wished to explore.

Alice Walker : stitches in time : an interview
Call Number: PS3573 .A425 Z464 2004
ISBN: 0736583173
Publication Date: 2004
What were Alice Walker's motivations in writing "Everyday use?" In this program the author discusses her short story with her official biographer, Evelyn C. White. Over the course of the interview, Walker talks about the autobiographical aspects of the story, the significance of quilting to African-American women, the perception of class differences, and the important life lessons she wished to explore.

40 Short Stories by Beverly Lawn
Call Number: PN6120.2 .A15 2004
ISBN: 9780312413057
Publication Date: 2004-07-05
Gathering forty important short stories in a portable and economical format, the second edition includes even more of the fiction instructors want to teach and more of the help student readers need.

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