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  2. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Warrior Marks - Wikipedia

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    Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women is a 1993 book by Alice Walker with Pratibha Parmar, who made an award-winning documentary of the same name. [1] Following on from her 1992 novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, Walker undertakes a journey to parts of Africa where clitoridectomy is still practised.

  4. Alice Walker - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. American author and activist (born 1944) For other people named Alice Walker, see Alice Walker (disambiguation). Alice Walker Walker in 2007 Born Alice Malsenior Walker (1944-02-09) February 9, 1944 (age 80) Eatonton, Georgia, U.S. Occupation Novelist short story writer poet political ...

  5. The Color Purple - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. ‘The Color Purple’ Review: Alice Walker’s Novel Lends Itself ...

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    Walker’s novel is many things, none more powerful than a reclamation of value, perspective and heritage from a person who’d been told she was worthless. Here, through song, the character of ...

  7. Category:Novels by Alice Walker - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Novels by Alice Walker" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Possessing the Secret of Joy; T. The Temple of My Familiar;

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  9. ‘My own name, Elizabeth, of course’ – the Queen’s moving ...

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    – As Princess Elizabeth on her 21st birthday in South Africa. “My own name, Elizabeth, of course.” – Asked by her private secretary what she wanted to be called after she became Queen.