Sankofa, Pets, and Familiars: How Animal Characters Encourage Interspecies Decolonization, Liberation, and Kinship in Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. As this empathy engenders interspecies alliance, it also implies the possibility of interracial and intersexual empathy and alliance.2. On the cover of The Temple of My Familiar published by Mariner Books in 2010, it says, “As a sequel to The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar is a major achievement—Chicago Tribune.”