Creative Spirituality of Black Women in Walker's "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens"

The question Walker raises in her essay ” In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens “ is "How was the creativity of the black woman kept alive?" Imagine black women not forced to endure the oppression. What other magnificent artists were not allowed to speak and create? Perhaps the heavy hand of society has silenced many more creative spirits. Her characters move through painful black experiences towards perhaps an understanding of responsible, adult, and serious action that will allow the imaginative living of a life.
Intense spirituality of black women in the South is well expressed. Black women have been abused, mutilated in body, and supposed to be unworthy of hope, beauty and art, they are unaware of their own rich spirituality. Their bodies are utilized by men as "sexual objects," and they even became more than it - "Saints." These "crazy, loony, pitiful women" are "our mothers and grandmothers" (276), and they were actually not "Saints" but Artists.
Walker argues that for slav...