Perspectives

This part of the study guide will give some ideas that will help you put “The Abortion” by Alice Walker in perspective, by looking at current issues, literary movement, and similar work…

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Current issues

The story explores abortion and issues related to the status of African-Americans in a time when abortions had only been legalized recently in the US and when the Civil Rights Moment was also relatively recent.

Nowadays, abortions have…

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Literary movement

Alice Walker’s fiction falls within the genre of African-American literature. This means that her writing focuses on issues related to African-Americans. As a contemporary writer, she also belongs to the postmodernist literary …

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Works with the same theme

For issues related to abortion, we recommend the short stories “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “Eastmouth” by Alison Moore.

“Hills like White Elephants” (Wider Contexts, chapter Love) conveys a conversation be…