WALKER, ALICE,
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Subseries 2.4a
Essays and edited volumes, 1966-2006
Arrangement Note
Collected essays are arranged by date of publication. Uncollected essays are arranged alphabetically by title.
| Collected | ||
| In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 73 | 29 | "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor" typescript drafts |
| 73 | 30 | "Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O'Connor" manuscript notes |
| 73 | 31 | "But Yet and Still The Cotton Gin Kept On Working" manuscript draft |
| 73 | 32 | "Checking Out the Cuban Revolution" typescript draft, 1977 (variant title: "My Father's Country is the Poor") |
| 73 | 33 | "Choosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After the March On Washington" typescript draft, manuscript notes, and galley proof for The New York Times, 1973 |
| 74 | 1 | "The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?" typescript draft fragments |
| 74 | 2 | "The Color Purple, the First Womanist Novel" typescript [published as definition of "womanism"] |
| 74 | 3 | "Coretta King: Revisited" typescript drafts with notes and printed material |
| 74 | 4 | "If the Present Looks Like the Past, What Does the Future Look Like?" typescript drafts and galley proofs for Essence Magazine [with variant title: "Embracing the Darkness and the Light" |
| 258 | 2 | "If the Present Looks Like the Past," typescript drafts |
| 74 | 5 | "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" typescript drafts, draft fragments, and notes [includes draft of original given as a speech at Radcliffe College Symposium, May 5, 1972] |
| 74 | 6 | "Looking for Zora" typescript drafts and fragments |
| 74 | 7 | "Looking to the Side and Back" typescript drafts |
| 74 | 8 | "Lulls" typescript draft |
| 74 | 9 | "One Child of One's Own" manuscript draft and partial typescript draft |
| 74 | 10 | "One Child of One's Own" typescript drafts, partial drafts, preface, and notes |
| 74 | 11 | "One Child of One's Own" galleys and corrected page proofs |
| 74 | 12 | "A Talk: Convocation 1972" typescript drafts |
| 74 | 13 | "To the Black Scholar" typescript draft with correspondence, 1979 |
| 74 | 14 | "Writing The Color Purple" typescript drafts |
| 74 | 15 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens prefatory material |
| 74 | 16 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens typescript draft [1] [includes printed material] |
| 75 | 1 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens typescript draft [2] [includes manuscript and printed material] [1 of 2] |
| 75 | 2 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens typescript draft [2] [includes manuscript and printed material] [2 of 2] |
| 75 | 3 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens typescript draft [3] [includes correspondence with Tillie Olsen] [1 of 2] |
| 75 | 4 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens typescript draft [3] [includes correspondence with Tillie Olsen] [2 of 2] |
| 258 | 1 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens editorial correspondence, 1981 |
| 75 | 5 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens corrected page proofs [1 of 2] |
| 75 | 6 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens corrected page proofs [2 of 2] |
| 76 | 1 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens partial corrected page proofs |
| 76 | 2 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens page proofs 2nd pass [1 of 3] |
| 76 | 3 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens page proofs 2nd pass [2 of 3] |
| 76 | 4 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens page proofs 2nd pass [3 of 3] |
| 76 | 5 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens early tables of contents |
| 76 | 6 | In Search of Our Mother's Gardens typescript with editorial correspondence |
| Living By the Word (1987) | ||
| 76 | 7 | "All the Bearded Irises of Life: Confessions of a Homospiritual" typescript drafts, 1987 (variant title: "Living With Gays") |
| 76 | 8 | "Am I Blue?" typescript drafts and galley proof with correspondence |
| 76 | 9 | "Coming In From the Cold" typescript drafts and partial draft |
| 76 | 10 | "Everything Is a Human Being" typescript draft [includes notes and correspondence to Tillie Olsen] |
| 76 | 11 | "Father" typescript drafts (variant title: "The Democratic Order: Such Things in 20 Years I Understood") |
| 76 | 12 | "In the Closet of the Soul" partial typescript and galley proofs for Ms. Magazine, 1986 |
| 76 | 13 | "Journal August 1984" typescript draft |
| 76 | 14 | "Longing to Die of Old Age" typescript draft and galley proof for Ms. Magazine, 1984 |
| 76 | 15 | "My Daughter Smokes" typescript drafts and partial drafts |
| 76 | 16 | "Nobody Was Supposed to Survive" typescript drafts |
| 76 | 17 | "Not Only Will Your Teachers Appear, They Will Cook New Foods For You" typescript draft and draft fragment |
| 77 | 1 | "On Seeing Red: An Introduction to the Film and Some of the People In It" typescript drafts, 1984 [variant title: "On Seeing Red"] |
| 77 | 2 | "Trying to See My Sister" partial typescript draft with notes |
| 77 | 3 | Living By the Word early table of contents typescript |
| 258 | 3 | Living By the Word early draft [1 of 3] |
| 258 | 4 | Living By the Word early draft [2 of 3] |
| 258 | 5 | Living By the Word early draft [3 of 3] |
| 77 | 4 | Living By the Word typescript draft [1] [1 of 2] [includes printed material] |
| 77 | 5 | Living By the Word typescript draft [1] [2 of 2] [includes printed material] |
| 77 | 6 | Living By the Word typescript draft [2], 1986 |
| 77 | 7 | Living By the Word typescript draft [3] |
| 77 | 8 | Living By the Word typescript draft [4] |
| 77 | 9 | Living By the Word typescript draft [5] |
| 77 | 10 | Living By the Word master galley proof |
| 78 | 1 | Living By the Word galley proof [1] |
| 78 | 2 | Living By the Word galley proof [2] |
| 78 | 3 | Living By the Word repro dupe with printer's annotations [1 of 2] |
| 78 | 4 | Living By the Word repro dupe with printer's annotations [2 of 2] |
| 78 | 5 | Living By the Word page proofs [1 of 2] |
| 78 | 6 | Living By the Word page proofs [2 of 2] |
| 78 | 7 | Living By the Word page proof fragments |
| 78 | 8 | Living By the Word setting copy [1 of 2] |
| 78 | 9 | Living By the Word setting copy [2 of 2] |
| 79 | 1 | Why Did the Balinese Chicken Cross the Road? Observations On the Magic Oneness of Being early variant title page |
| 79 | 2 | Living By the Word typescript with editorial correspondence |
| The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) | ||
| 79 | 3 | "The Color Purple: A Synopsis for Film" typescript draft |
| 79 | 4 | "The Filming of the Color Purple, notebook entries, 1985-1986" typescript draft |
| 79 | 5 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [1] [includes printed material and original correspondence] |
| 79 | 6 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [2] [1 of 2] |
| 79 | 7 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [2] [2 of 2] |
| 79 | 8 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [3] [1 of 2] |
| 79 | 9 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [3] [2 of 2] |
| 258 | 6 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [5] [1 of 3] |
| 258 | 7 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [5] [2 of 3] |
| 258 | 8 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult typescript draft [5] [3 of 3] |
| 79 | 10 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult partial typescript draft [1] |
| 79 | 11 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult partial typescript draft [2] |
| 79 | 12 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult partial typescript draft [3] |
| 79 | 13 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult partial typescript draft [4], March 26, 1995 [includes printed material] |
| 80 | 1 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult partial typescript with revisions |
| 80 | 2 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult prefatory material |
| 80 | 3 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult page proofs [1 of 2] |
| 80 | 4 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult page proofs [2 of 2] |
| 258 | 9 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult page proofs, October 25, 1995 [1 of 2] |
| 259 | 1 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult page proofs, October 25, 1995 [2 of 2] |
| 80 | 5 | The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, correspondence, 1994-1996 |
| Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997) | ||
| 259 | 2 | "Anything We Love Can Be Saved: The Resurrection of Zora Neale Hurston,” typescript draft |
| 259 | 3 | "Becoming What We're Called,” typescript draft |
| 80 | 6 | "Dreads" typescript drafts and fragment |
| 80 | 7 | "Giving the Party" typescript, 1993 |
| 259 | 4 | "Giving the Party" typescript drafts |
| 259 | 5 | "How Long Shall They Torture Our Mothers," typescript |
| 259 | 6 | "How Long Shall They Torture Our Mothers," photocopy |
| 80 | 8 | "Follow Me Home" typescript draft [includes correspondence and printed material] |
| 259 | 7 | "Hugging Fidel" typescript draft |
| 80 | 9 | "Introduction" typescript drafts |
| 80 | 10 | "My Mother's Blue Bowl" typescript draft |
| 259 | 8 | "The Only Reason That You Want to Go to Heaven" typescript draft |
| 80 | 11 | "The Only Reason That You Want to Go to Heaven Is That You Have Been Driven Out of Your Mind" typescript drafts with correspondence |
| 259 | 9 | "Songs, Flowers, and Swords" typescript |
| 80 | 12 | "The Story of Why I am Here, Or A Woman Connects Oppressions" typescript draft |
| 259 | 13 | "The Story of Why I am Here, Or A Woman Connects Oppressions" typescript drafts |
| 259 | 10 | "Sweet Honey in the Rock" typescript draft |
| 259 | 11 | "This That I Offer You," typescript draft |
| 80 | 13 | "Turquoise and Coral: The Writing of the Temple of My Familiar" typescript |
| 259 | 12 | "Turquoise and Coral: The Writing of the Temple of My Familiar" typescript drafts |
| 80 | 14 | "Writing 'Possessing the Secret of Joy'" typescript drafts with correspondence |
| 80 | 15 | "You Have All Seen" typescript drafts and galley proofs |
| 81 | 1 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft [1] [1 of 2] |
| 81 | 2 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft [1] [2 of 2] |
| 81 | 3 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft [2] with editorial correspondence (variant title: "Belief in the Love of the World") [1 of 2] |
| 81 | 4 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft [2] (variant title: "Belief in the Love of the World")[2 of 2] |
| 81 | 5 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft [3] (variant title: "Belief in the Love of the World") [1 of 2] |
| 81 | 6 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft [3] (variant title: "Belief in the Love of the World") [2 of 2] |
| 81 | 7 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft [4], August 22, 1996 |
| 81 | 8 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft with permissions [1 of 2] |
| 82 | 1 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved typescript draft with permissions [2 of 2] |
| 82 | 2 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved early front matter |
| 82 | 3 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved correspondence and list of illustrations |
| 82 | 4 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved front matter with correspondence, October 18, 1996 |
| 82 | 5 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved master galleys, 2nd pass [1 of 2] |
| 82 | 6 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved master galleys, 2nd pass [2 of 2] |
| 82 | 7 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved corrected galleys [1 of 2] |
| 82 | 8 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved corrected galleys [2 of 2] |
| 83 | 1 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved unbound page proofs [1] |
| 83 | 2 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved unbound page proofs [2] |
| 83 | 3 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved partial proof copy |
| OP1 | 9 | Anything We Love Can Be Saved cover art |
| Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit (2001) | ||
| 83 | 4 | Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit page proofs |
| We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006) | ||
| 83 | 5 | "To Be Led By Happiness" typescript draft with correspondence (variant title: "Being Led By Happiness: My Arrest in Front of a House My Ancestors Built") |
| 83 | 6 | "Crimes Against Dog" typescript draft with correspondence |
| 83 | 7 | "How It Feels to Know Somebody Died For You: Living With the Voice of the Beloved" typescript drafts |
| 83 | 8 | "Metta to Muriel and other Marvels" typescript draft |
| 83 | 9 | "Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit" typescript draft and page proof |
| 83 | 10 | "This Was Not An Area of Large Plantations" typescript draft |
| 83 | 11 | "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Introduction" typescript draft (published under variant title: "Three Fates") |
| 83 | 12 | "When Life Descends Into the Pit" typescript draft |
| 83 | 13 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For typescript draft [1] with correspondence (variant title: "Led By Happiness: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness") [1 of 2] |
| 83 | 14 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For typescript draft [1] (variant title: "Led By Happiness: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness") [2 of 2] |
| 84 | 1 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For typescript draft [2] |
| 84 | 2 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For typescript draft [3] |
| 84 | 3 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For typescript draft [4] [1 of 2] |
| 84 | 4 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For typescript draft [4] [1 of 2] |
| 84 | 5 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For cover art |
| 84 | 6 | We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For prefatory material |
| Uncollected | ||
| 84 | 7 | "1963" typescript draft |
| 84 | 8 | "Alice Walker's Laws" typescript draft |
| 84 | 9 | "Alice Walker's Recommended Summer Reading, 1968" typescript with related correspondence |
| 84 | 10 | "Beginning, Again" page proof |
| 84 | 11 | "Being A Treasure of the State" typescript |
| 84 | 12 | "Black Power: A New Concept (Or an Old One) in SNCC Policy" typescript, 1966 |
| 84 | 13 | "The Black Woman Writer in America" typescript draft (variant title: "Finding What One Needs: Black Women Writers"), [1973] |
| 84 | 14 | "Books Whose Leaves Are Talking Trees" typescript drafts, [circa 2000s] |
| 84 | 15 | "Childhood: For Marian" typescript draft |
| 84 | 16 | "Comments on the Banning of The Color Purple" typescript draft, [circa 1985] |
| 84 | 17 | "Dedication" typescript drafts |
| 84 | 18 | "Dreams July 31-August 2, 1990" typescript draft |
| 84 | 19 | "A Family of Friends" typescript 1978 |
| 84 | 20 | "Father: For What You Were" galleys with correspondence, 1985 |
| 84 | 21 | "Finding Celie's Voice: Language, Spirits, and Folk Speech" galleys, [1985] |
| 84 | 22 | "From the Journey and a Letter to Michael Brown; Howard Zinn" typescript 1965 |
| 84 | 23 | "The Future of the Negro College" typescript interview questions and notes, [circa 1960s] |
| 84 | 24 | "Home" typescript draft 1995 |
| 84 | 25 | "Introducing Denise" typescript draft |
| 84 | 26 | "Jews" typescript draft, 1966 |
| 84 | 27 | "Journal" typescript [circa 1965] |
| 84 | 28 | "Journal 37-42" typescript |
| 84 | 29 | Judy Blume article fragment [published in the New York Times], 1978 |
| 84 | 30 | "Journey to the Source" manuscript notes |
| 84 | 31 | "Letting the Story Line Go" typescript |
| 84 | 32 | "My Work" manuscript, 1972 |
| 84 | 33 | "The New Black Woman and the South" typescript draft |
| 84 | 34 | "Oprah" typescript, 2002 |
| 84 | 35 | "Patriarchy" manuscript, [circa 1970s] |
| 84 | 36 | "Pornography: Thinking About" typescript draft |
| 84 | 37 | "Shame as Theft: Thoughts on Folklore from an Early Age" typescript drafts |
| 84 | 38 | "Notes on Folklore" manuscript [circa 1980s] |
| 85 | 1 | "Something to Do With Real Life" typescript drafts, 1972 |
| 85 | 2 | "A Statement on Black Women and Freedom in the 70s" typescript draft |
| 85 | 3 | Statement on James Baldwin typescript 1979 |
| 85 | 4 | "Talking Trees" typescript draft, 1984 (variant title: "When a Tree Falls") |
| 85 | 5 | "Travel Notes on Mississippi and Wellesley" typescript draft [circa 1970s] |
| 85 | 6 | Unidentified fragment manuscript and typescript |
| 85 | 7 | Untitled essay typescript draft |
| Edited Volumes | ||
| Correspondence of Bessie Head with Betty Fradkin and Alice Walker(1994) | ||
| 85 | 8 | Head, Bessie, "Correspondence of Bessie Head with Betty Fradkin and Alice Walker," typescript draft, 1994 [1 of 3] [For original correspondence between Bessie Head and Alice Walker, see the Series 1: Correspondence. For original correspondence between Bessie Head and Betty Fradkin see Series 3: Subject files.] |
| 85 | 9 | Head, Bessie, "Correspondence of Bessie Head with Betty Fradkin and Alice Walker," typescript draft, 1994 [2 of 3] |
| 85 | 10 | Head, Bessie, "Correspondence of Bessie Head with Betty Fradkin and Alice Walker," typescript draft, 1994 [3 of 3] |
| 85 | 11 | Head, Bessie, "Correspondence of Bessie Head with Betty Fradkin and Alice Walker," partial typescript draft, 1994 |
| I Love Myself When I Am Laughing . . .And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive (1979) | ||
| 85 | 12 | "Autobiography, Folklore, and Reportage" typescript introduction |
| 85 | 13 | "On Refusing to Be Humbled By Second Place In A Contest You Did Not Design" typescript draft, 1979 (variant title: "And If The Great Trees, Lost in the Forest, Fall, Who Will Stand Up For Them?") |
| Letters of Love and Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five (2005) | ||
| 85 | 14 | Letters of Love and Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five typescript draft [1] with artwork and correspondence |
| 85 | 15 | Letters of Love and Hope: The Story of the Cuban Five typescript draft [2] bound with correspondence |
| Warrior Marks (1993) | ||
| 86 | 1 | Warrior Marks "Preface" typescript with correspondence [includes typescript of Pratibha Parmar's preface] |
| 86 | 2 | Warrior Marks partial typescript draft |
| 86 | 3 | Warrior Marks typescript draft with correspondence |
| 86 | 4 | Warrior Marks typescript draft [Alice Walker's portion] [1 of 2] |
| 86 | 5 | Warrior Marks typescript draft [Alice Walker's portion] [2 of 2] |
| 86 | 6 | Warrior Marks editorial correspondence, 1993-1994 |
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