In Search Of Our Mothers Garde
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens - Alice Walker
When the poet Jean Toomer walked through the South in the early twenties, he discovered a curious thing: black women whose spirituality was so intense, so deep, so unconscious, they were themselves unaware of the richness they held. They stumbled bl ....
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.... black women, as being a sexual object presents a sensitive subject. We are presented with an image of black women as helpless beings, and
the only form of artistic expression available to them is their daily life. In the ordinary tasks of cooking, sewing, and growing food, tasks on which their survival depended, these women found a way to express the yearnings of the soul for hope and beauty, as well as the desire to be remembered. Unable to read and to write their own stories, these gene ....
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