Alice Walker\'s early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work.
This casebook includes an introdu.
By putting African American women\'s voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers.
Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women\'s culture, and African American lives.
Alice Walker\'s early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work