In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is a collection of essays by Alice Walker that explores Black women's creativity, history, and resilience through literary criticism, biography, and personal reflection.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" | 1 |
| In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens canonical | 1 |
| In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2720126 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Context triple: [Alice Walker, notableWork, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens]
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A.
The Woman Warrior
The Woman Warrior is a groundbreaking memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston that blends autobiography and Chinese folklore to explore Chinese American female identity and the immigrant experience.
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B.
My Beloved World
My Beloved World is the memoir of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, chronicling her journey from a Bronx housing project to the nation’s highest court.
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C.
The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us
The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us is a memoir-style anthology compiled by Patti Davis that explores complex mother-daughter relationships through personal stories from various women.
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D.
Green Place of Many Mothers
The Green Place of Many Mothers is a once-fertile matriarchal oasis in the Mad Max: Fury Road universe, remembered as Imperator Furiosa’s lost childhood homeland.
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E.
A Colored Woman in a White World
A Colored Woman in a White World is the 1940 autobiography of civil rights and women’s rights activist Mary Church Terrell, chronicling her life and struggles against racism and sexism in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Target entity description: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is a collection of essays by Alice Walker that explores Black women's creativity, history, and resilience through literary criticism, biography, and personal reflection.
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A.
The Woman Warrior
The Woman Warrior is a groundbreaking memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston that blends autobiography and Chinese folklore to explore Chinese American female identity and the immigrant experience.
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B.
My Beloved World
My Beloved World is the memoir of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, chronicling her journey from a Bronx housing project to the nation’s highest court.
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C.
The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us
The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us is a memoir-style anthology compiled by Patti Davis that explores complex mother-daughter relationships through personal stories from various women.
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D.
Green Place of Many Mothers
The Green Place of Many Mothers is a once-fertile matriarchal oasis in the Mad Max: Fury Road universe, remembered as Imperator Furiosa’s lost childhood homeland.
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E.
A Colored Woman in a White World
A Colored Woman in a White World is the 1940 autobiography of civil rights and women’s rights activist Mary Church Terrell, chronicling her life and struggles against racism and sexism in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
essay collection
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Alice Walker ⓘ |
| containsForm |
biographical sketches
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literary criticism ⓘ personal reflection ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalPerspective |
Black feminist criticism
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womanist perspective ⓘ |
| explores |
erasure of Black women from literary history
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mother-daughter relationships ⓘ politics of representation ⓘ recovery of Black women's voices ⓘ spirituality in Black women's lives ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
African-American folklore
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Black women artists ⓘ Black women writers ⓘ Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ |
| genre |
African-American literature
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biographical essays ⓘ essays ⓘ feminist literature ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ personal essays ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
contemporary Black feminist thought
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scholarship on Black women writers ⓘ womanist theology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African-American oral tradition
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Black Southern culture ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
African-American cultural heritage
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Black female subjectivity ⓘ Black women's creativity ⓘ Black women's history ⓘ artistic expression under oppression ⓘ intersection of race and gender ⓘ legacy of slavery ⓘ resilience of Black women ⓘ womanism ⓘ |
| movement |
Black feminist movement
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surface form:
Black feminism
womanist movement ⓘ |
| notableEssay |
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
"Looking for Zora" ⓘ "One Child of One's Own" ⓘ "Saving the Life That Is Your Own" ⓘ |
| periodAddressed |
Jim Crow laws
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surface form:
Jim Crow era
American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
slavery in the United States ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Description of subject: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is a collection of essays by Alice Walker that explores Black women's creativity, history, and resilience through literary criticism, biography, and personal reflection.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
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notableEssay
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"