Warrior Marks
Warrior Marks is a 1993 book by Alice Walker. Following on from Possessing the Secret of Joy Walker undertakes a journey to parts of Africa where clitoridectomy is still practised. It is a harrowing work as Walker interviews women who have had the operation done and finally interviews a woman—circumcised herself—who performs the operation.
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| Novels and short story collections |
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) • Everyday Use (1973) • In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) • Roselily (1973) • Meridian (1976) • The Color Purple (1982) • You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982) • Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (1983) • Am I Blue? (1986) • To Hell With Dying (1988) • The Temple of My Familiar (1989) • Finding the Green Stone (1991) • Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) • The Complete Stories (1994) • By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998) • The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000) • Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005) • Devil's My Enemy (2008)
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| Poetry collections |
Once (1968) • Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973) • Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979) • Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985) • Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991) • Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003) • A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003) • Collected Poems (2005) • Poem at Thirty-Nine • Expect nothing
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| Non-fiction |
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) • Living by the Word (1988) • Warrior Marks (1993) • The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) • Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997) • Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997) • Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999) • Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001) • Women • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006) • Mississippi Winter IV
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