Possessing the Secret of Joy

by Alice Walker | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0671789422 Global Overview for this book
Registered by darkpunkangel of Barrie, Ontario Canada on 7/30/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by darkpunkangel from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Thursday, July 30, 2009
From Publishers Weekly

Pulitzer Prize winner Walker illustrates the truism that violence begets violence in this strong-voiced but often stridentan obvious novel? and polemical novel. The focus of Walker's rage is the practice of female circumcision in African cultures. Her tale concerns Tashi, a character who made fleeting appearances in The Color Purple and The Temple of My Familiar , and who here represents an archetypal figure, not so much a woman as a mouthpiece for feminist distress. Tashi grows up in a small African village but initially escapes the customary clitorodectomy. Eventually she is coerced into having the operation as a means of offering fealty to the sinister politician called Our Leader. When she moves to the U.S. with her husband and assumes a new identity as Evelyn Johnson, her pain and anger, accumulating the suffering of the ages, bubble to the surface in a lingering madness that therapy does not assuage and thatwhy not delete this next phrase (through 'finally') as point is made in previous sentence and 'accumulate' is repeated, and incorporate the point about "the ages" into the previous sentenc finally culminates in murder. Walker tells the story in very brief chapters, each loaded with the sense of the historical importance she wishes to convey, but the fragile narrative cannot support the weight of her overwrought prose. Walker's protest against ok? author's "message" in the last review "what men . . . do to us" cannot be faulted; its guise as a novel, however, can.

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Journal Entry 2 by darkpunkangel at RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (9/2/2009 UTC) at RABCK, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Sent today, hope you enjoy the book :D!

Journal Entry 3 by davemurray101 from Christiansted, US Virgin Islands US Virgin Islands on Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Just found this one today in my pile of to-read books. should be interesting.

Journal Entry 4 by davemurray101 from Christiansted, US Virgin Islands US Virgin Islands on Sunday, December 27, 2009
A fantastic mosaic of a book. Journeying from Africa to the US through the inner thoughts of its characters. This story retells the serious problem of FGM in Africa.

Journal Entry 5 by davemurray101 at Cafe de Beaumont in Hamilton, New South Wales Australia on Friday, January 15, 2010

Released 14 yrs ago (1/16/2010 UTC) at Cafe de Beaumont in Hamilton, New South Wales Australia

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Releasing at the Bookcrossing Newcastle meeting.

Journal Entry 6 by angelbird72 from Newcastle, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, January 17, 2010
Picked up at the meeting yesterday. Looks interesting.

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