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Possessing the Secret of Joy is a 1992 novel by Alice Walker. Plot summary. It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker's fictional African nation where female genital mutilation is practiced.
- Alice Walker
- 1992
1 gen 2001 · Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised).
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Possessing the Secret of Joy is a collection of first-person narratives which tell the story of the effect a female circumcision ritual has on the central character's life, the lives of...
Plot Summary. Alice Walker’s novel Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) focuses on Tashi, a minor character from Walker’s earlier and more famous novel, The Color Purple, who marries Adam, Celie’s son. In The Color Purple, Tashi undergoes the traditional African rite of female circumcision and facial scarring; Adam also has his face ...
6 mag 2008 · Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel [Walker, Alice] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel.
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- Alice Walker
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- The New Press
14 ott 2010 · Narrated through an evocative chorus of voices, Possessing the Secret of Joy follows Tashi’s struggle to understand the forces of oppression that lead to her trauma, to access her own painful past (even seeking treatment from Carl Jung), and, eventually, to discover the secret of joy.
Possessing the Secret of Joy Copertina flessibile. 4,5 485 voti. Libro 3 di 3: The Color Purple. Visualizza tutti i formati ed edizioni. Copertina rigida. 16,76 € 1 Nuovo da 16,76 € Copertina flessibile. 9,70 € 1 Usato da 9,70 € Libro 3 di 3. The Color Purple. ISBN-10. 0671791001. ISBN-13. 978-0671791001. Visualizza tutti i dettagli.
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