Books by Ikenna Dieke

This study explores the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works, and the discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers' use of the allegorical mode is an attempt to recover the subtext of their works.

The essays fall largely into three main groups, focusing on Walker's most famous and controversial novel, The Color Purple, on her poetry, which has for too long met with critical neglect, and on her ecofeminist novel, The Temple of My Familiar.