Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Alice and Zora--"The call and the response" / Lillie P. Howard -- Zora Neale Hurston : a cautionary tale and a partisan view / Alice Walker -- Settling the dust : tracking Zora through Alice Walker's "The revenge of Hannah Kemhuff" / Mary L. Navarro and Mary H. Sims -- Our people, our people / Trudier Harris -- A sense of wonder : the pattern for psychic survival in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Alice Fannin -- "That which the soul lives by" : spirituality in the works of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker / Mary Ann Wilson -- Redemption through redemption of the self in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Emma J. Waters Dawson -- Women and words : articulating the self in Their eyes were watching God and The color purple / Valerie Babb -- Searching for Zora in Alice's garden : rites of passage in Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland / JoAnne Cornwell -- Dynamics of change : men and co-feeling in the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker / Ann Folwell Stanford -- Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker : a transcendent relationship--Jonah's gourd vine and The color purple / Ayana Karanja -- Benediction : a few words about The temple of my familiar, variously experienced, and Possessing the secret of joy / Lillie P. Howard.

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