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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 ...
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 ...
Meridian is a 1976 novel by Alice Walker. It has been described as Walker's "meditation on the modern civil rights movement." [1] Meridian is about Meridian Hill, a young black woman in the late 1960s who is attending college as she embraces the civil rights movement at a time when the movement becomes violent. The story follows her life into ...
978-0-15-189905-0. OCLC. 188256. The Third Life of Grange Copeland is the debut novel of American author Alice Walker. Published in 1970, it is set in rural Georgia. It tells the story of Grange, his wife, their son Brownfield, and granddaughter Ruth. [1]
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 ...
Plot summary. It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from the Olinka, (Alice Walker's fictional West African tribe) where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named Adam then leaves the Olinka because of the war.
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