Lexington Books
Pages: 195
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7391-1160-4 • Hardback • February 2007 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
Karla Simcikova is Chair of the English Department and Assistant Professor of English at University of Ostrava in the Czech Republc.
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: Alice Walker: A Woman of Deep Spirituality
Chapter 2 Beyond Womanism: Toward an Encompassing Visionary Spirituality
Chapter 3 To Be Whole: Body, Spirit, and the Unity of Self
Chapter 4 To Be Connected: The Unity with, between, and among People
Chapter 5 To Be One: The Unity with Nature, Earth, and the Whole Universe
Chapter 6 To Live Fully, Here and Now: The World and Us
Chapter 7 CONCLUSION: The Relevance of Walker's Spirituality
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.
— Donna Haisty Winchell, Clemson University