LITERARY ANALYSIS OF ALICE WALKER’S “EVERYDAY USE”

Abstract

This article is about analysis of Walker’s story ‘Everyday Use’ and its basic features and gender issues that expressed in the novels of Alice Walker and it also gives essential plot of the story. Walker focuses on black feminism as a feminist, this term based on black folk culture to make it clear that the notion of femininity comes from the experience of being a black woman. ‘Everyday Use’ is one of the most popular and widely studied short stories by Alice Walker. It was first published in Harper’s Magazine in 1973 before being collected in Walker’s short-story collection “In Love and Trouble”. Walker uses ‘Everyday Use’ to explore different attitudes towards Black American culture and heritage.