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Title
Alice Walker / Maria Lauret.
Author
Lauret, Maria.
Edition
2nd ed.
ISBN
9780230575882
0230575889
9780230575899 (pbk.)
0230575897 (pbk.)
0230575889
9780230575899 (pbk.)
0230575897 (pbk.)
Imprint
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language
English
Description
ix, 290 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PS3573.A425 Z77 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
Summary
"Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature? Alice Walker, second edition: * examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs * has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments * brings coverage of Walker's work right up to date with a new chapter on Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004), and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including Overcoming Speechlessness (2010) *_traces Walker's_lineage back to_nineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists * assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US author_as it explains_her unique place in contemporary American letters"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Alice Walker's life and work: an introduction
The third life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Meridian (1976)
The color purple (1982)
Possessing the secret of joy (1992)
The later fiction: by the light of my father's smile (1998) and now is the time to open your heart (2004)
A writer's activism and its critics: an epilogue.
The third life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Meridian (1976)
The color purple (1982)
Possessing the secret of joy (1992)
The later fiction: by the light of my father's smile (1998) and now is the time to open your heart (2004)
A writer's activism and its critics: an epilogue.