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Aletria Revista de Estudos de Literatura

ISSN 1679-3749

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Black Multiconsciousness and Decolonial Ecoethics in Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004), a Spiritualistic Novel by Alice Walker

Aletria Revista de Estudos de Literatura October 2, 2026 Cláudio R. V. Braga

This article offers a reading of Alice Walker’s Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004), focusing on the spiritual discoveries of the novel’s protagonist, who comes into contact with Indigenous knowledge systems throughout her journeys. It examines how communion with nature is articulated with spirituality and the demand for resistance and transformation, proposing the concept of Decolonial...