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Alice Walker |
| A Critical Companion |
| Gerri Bates
ISBN: 0313320241
Format: Hardcover, 240pp
Pub. Date: October 2005
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
BBP Sales Rank: 185,987
List Price: $39.95 |
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Alice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged
sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the
Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world's most respected African
American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges,
Walker began to draw on both her personal tragedies and those of her community
to write poetry, essays, short stories, and novels that would tell the
virtually untold stories of oppressed African and African American women,
providing readers with hope and inspiring activism. Perhaps best known for her
novel The Color Purple (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and became
a controversial film three years later, Walker has introduced and developed
womanist theory, criticism and practice, and continues to champion the causes
of women of color by encouraging their strength and liberation in her life and
her writings. |
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