LibGuides: Gateway Short Reads : Spring 2022: February 28th : Everyday Use

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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
Short Story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Alice Walker.

Photo Source: Ren, Michele. "Walker, Alice." Encyclopedia of American Studies, edited by Simon Bronner, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st edition, 2018.

Library Resources

Short Biography of Alice Walker
Ren, Michele. "Walker, Alice." Encyclopedia of American Studies, edited by Simon Bronner, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st edition, 2018. Credo Reference
Literary Analysis of Walker's "Everyday Use" and "One Child of One's Own"
Hirsch, Marianne. The Mother/Daughter Plot : Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism. Indiana University Press, 1989. EBSCOhost

The Cushion in the Road by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9781595588722
Publication Date: 2013-04-09
...visiting subjects she has addressed throughout her career—including racism, Africa, Palestinian solidarity, and Cuba—as well as addressing emergent issues, such as the presidency of Barack Obama and health care, Walker explores her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world.

Walker, Alice, et al. Alice Walker reading her poems in the Whittall Pavilion. 1979. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/91740729/>.

Intro begins around 1:00

Alice Walker begins around 6:20