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Reanimating the Trope of the Talking Book in Alice Walker’s “Strong Horse Tea” by Deborah Anne Hooker In a 1970 essay, “The Black Writer and the Southern Experi- ence,” Alice Walker qualifi es her refusal to “romanticize the Southern black country life” of her upbringing, recalling that while she “hated it, generally . . . no one could wish for a more advantageous heritage than that bequeathed to the black writer in the South: a compassion for the earth, a trust in humanity beyond our knowledge of evil, and an abiding love of justice” (21). Essays published in the 1980s, such as “Am I Blue” and “Everything is a Human Being,” and her more recent response to the events of September 11, 2001Sen , t by Earth, coalesce that southern, rural-bred “compassion for the earth” into a recognizable ecocritical world view. In “The Universe Responds,” for example, Walker unabash- edly stakes the richness of human creativity to the health of the natu- ral world: “we are connected to [animals] at least as intimately as we are connected to trees,” she says. “Without plant life human beings could not breathe. . . . Without free animal life . . .
The Southern Literary Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 16, 2005
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