FEMINISTIC APPROACH IN THE CREATIVE WORK OF ALICE WALKER

Abstract

This article is related to the creative work of Alice Walker and her suggestion of feminism as a stand-in point for black feminism to articulate its difference from white feminism was articulated in her 1983 collection of essays, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens. This philosophy emerged as a reaction to the marginalization of women of color in mainstream feminist critical theory and politics, which focused exclusively on gender oppression. Walker refers to black feminism as feminism, a term based on black folk culture to make it clear that the concept of femininity comes from the experience of being a black woman.