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Possessing the Secret of Joy is a 1992 novel by Alice Walker. Plot summary. It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker's fictional African nation where female genital mutilation is practiced.
- Alice Walker
- 1992
Jan 1, 2001 · Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised).
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May 6, 2008 · Possessing the Secret of Joy, out of print for a number of years, was the first novel to deal with this controversial topic and managed to do so in a manner that Cosmopolitan called "masterful, honorable, and unforgettable storytelling."
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- Alice Walker
- $14.47
- The New Press
Oct 14, 2010 · Narrated through an evocative chorus of voices, Possessing the Secret of Joy follows Tashi’s struggle to understand the forces of oppression that lead to her trauma, to access her own painful past (even seeking treatment from Carl Jung), and, eventually, to discover the secret of joy.
Jun 30, 1992 · Though she often succumbs to madness, Tashi eventually takes possession of the secret of joy. Her compelling story is every Eve's account of those "whose chastity belt was made of leather, or of silk and diamonds, or of fear and not of our own 'flesh.'
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- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- Alice Walker
Sep 15, 2021 · Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised).
Jan 1, 1997 · Prompted by misguided loyalty to the customs of her people, Tashi Johnson, a tribal African woman living in North America, endures a severely traumatizing tribal initiation rite of passage, an experience that affects her sense of identity. Reprint. Book 3 of 3. The Color Purple. Print length. 304 pages. Language. English. Publisher.
