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To Live Fully, Here And Now

by Karla Simcikova
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Overview

To Live Fully, Here and Now formulates a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Alice Walker's spiritual wisdom in the age of heightened global awareness, natural devastation, and spiritual crisis. Simcikova argues that to fully understand Walker's complex and multi-layered concept of spirituality, we have to move beyond the womanist model to incorporate and/or accommodate all the influences that have had a significant impact on Walker, particularly her interest in Native American spirituality. Simcikova also offers a new paradigm of wholeness, unity, and interconnectedness for critical analysis of her Walker's latest works. This ground-breaking book will find audiences across disciplines as it addresses the fundamental ethical question of what it means to be human.

Synopsis

To Live Fully, Here and Now formulates a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Alice Walker's spiritual wisdom in the age of heightened global awareness, natural devastation, and spiritual crisis. Simcikova argues that to fully understand Walker's complex and multi-layered concept of spirituality, we have to move beyond the womanist model to incorporate and/or accommodate all the influences that have had a significant impact on Walker.

About the Author, Karla Simcikova

Karla Simcikova is Chair of the English Department and Assistant Professor of English at University of 'strava in the Czech Republc.

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Editorials

Donna Haisty Winchell

In To Live Fully, Here and Now, Simcikova provides Walker scholars with a valuable in-depth analysis of Walker's spirituality in all of its complexity. Focusing on Walker's works since 1984, she looks beyond the novelist as womanist to trace the evolution of Walker as a spiritualist and activist questing after wholeness for the self, for her race, and for the planet.

Book Details

Published
February 1, 2007
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pages
194
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780739111604

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