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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
Published in 1983, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose is a collection composed of 36 separate pieces written by Alice Walker. The essays, articles, reviews, statements, and speeches were written between 1966 and 1982. [ 1] Many are based on her understanding of "womanist" theory. Walker defines "womanist" at the beginning of the ...
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [ 2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [ 3][ 4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...
Where do you stand on the 1985 film version of “The Color Purple,” which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, but won none? Some feel it wasn’t Steven Spielberg’s story to tell. Others ...
The actress and author of 'Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me' on Alice Walker, 'Sex and the City,' and the Last Book She Bought.
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United States. United Kingdom. Language. English. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth is a documentary film directed by Pratibha Parmar, made by Kali Films production company. The film follows the life of the Pulitzer Prize -winning author, poet and activist Alice Walker. [1] Shooting began in May 2011. The documentary was first aired on BBC Four ...
1892. " The Yellow Wallpaper " (original title: " The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story ") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. [ 1] It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and ...