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Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple and other works of African-American literature. She is also a social activist who participated in the Civil Rights Movement, womanism, and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel tells the story of Celie, a poor African-American girl, and her struggles with abuse, love, and identity in rural Georgia.
A collection of essays by Alice Walker on topics such as womanism, black literature, and the Civil Rights Movement. Walker explores her personal and political views, her influences, and her activism through her writing and research.
‘The Color Purple’ Review: Alice Walker’s Novel Lends Itself to the Blues, as Well as Stirring Musical’s Sense of Spiritual Uplift Peter Debruge December 19, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Meridian is a 1976 novel by Alice Walker that explores the personal and political struggles of a young black woman in the 1960s and 1970s. The novel depicts Meridian's involvement in the civil rights movement, her relationship with Truman Held, and her decision to give up her son for adoption.
A novel by Alice Walker about Tashi, an African woman who undergoes female genital mutilation and suffers from trauma and madness. The novel explores the themes of culture, gender, and identity through multiple voices and perspectives.
Walker says,"it was an incredibly difficult novel to write, for I had to look at, and name, and speak up about violence among black people in the black community at the same time that black people (and some whites)--including me and my family were enduring massive psychological and physical violence from white supremacists in the southern states, particularly Mississippi."
Womanist theology is a methodological approach to theology that centers the experience and perspectives of Black women, especially African-American women. It emerged as a corrective to feminist and black theology that did not address the impact of race, sex, and class on women's lives.