Alice Walker's Womanism VS Feminism | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 14, Volume 67, Issue 1, July 2019, Pages 374-396 PDF (650.87 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.133842 | ||
| Author | ||
| Marwa Mahmoud Mohamed El-Shennawy El-Shennawy | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Womanism" is a term coined by Alice Walker in her book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens : Womanist Prose to culminate almost two decades-long effort to establish a literary Canon for African American Women writers. Her main target is to evoke the black women's glory and pride in their cultural heritage, and to provide them with socio-political framework to fully engage in society. Izgarjan and Markov emphasize that : As Walker's literary scope expanded and she developed into a more mature writer and political activist, she became aware of the need for a movement which would be different from feminism and which would offer colored women a space to formulate their policy. She named it Womanism"(305) | ||
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