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Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel
de Walker, Alice
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151731527
- ISBN 13
- 9780151731527
- Librería
-
Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Orlando, Florida, USA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Second Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Fine in Fine Dust Wrapper. Burnt-orange half cloth binding, gilt titled, with gray boards; clean, unmarked, tight and solid book. Combines fact with fiction to address the troubling issue of female genital mutilation that continues in some cultures, through the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who has experienced this and found her way to understand and overcome her grief but maybe not her anger. 286 pages. 9.5 x 5.5 inches. 1992, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Orlando, Florida, USA
Sinopsis
In Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy , we meet Tashi Johnson again (she first appeared in The Color Purple ). The young tribal African woman is now living in North America. As a young woman, she submitted to the customs of her people led her to submit to the tribal initiation rite of passage, which involves genital mutilation. Now severely traumatized, she spends the rest of her life trying to reconcile her heritage with her experience as a modern woman in America.
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014912
- Título
- Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel
- Autor
- Walker, Alice
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151731527
- ISBN 13
- 9780151731527
- Editorial
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Lugar de publicación
- Orlando, Florida, USA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Palabras clave
- AFRICAN WOMAN GENITAL MUTILATION PSYCHOTHERAPY
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Tight
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- Gilt
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