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The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker
This study is an examination of the development of the quest motif in Alice Walker's novels, from a male quest in the first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, to the female quests which supersede it in the two later novels, Meridian and The Color Purple. In this analysis, brief reference is m...
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| description | This study is an examination of the development of the quest motif in Alice Walker's novels, from a male quest in the first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, to the female quests which supersede it in the two later novels, Meridian and The Color Purple. In this analysis, brief reference is made to Walker's poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as to texts by black male writers and other Afro-American women writers. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/19513 The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker Miles, Lesley Margaret Pears Driver, Dorothy McCormick, Kay Literary Studies This study is an examination of the development of the quest motif in Alice Walker's novels, from a male quest in the first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, to the female quests which supersede it in the two later novels, Meridian and The Color Purple. In this analysis, brief reference is made to Walker's poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as to texts by black male writers and other Afro-American women writers. 2016-05-09T08:57:59Z 2016-05-09T08:57:59Z 1987 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19513 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker |
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| title_short | The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker |
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| topic | Literary Studies |
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