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From:Contemporary Popular WritersWhen Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple (1982) became a movie, she gained her widest acclaim as an author. In the characters of Celie, Sophia, and Shug, Walker builds strong and assertive black...
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From: Obsidian II[(essay date Spring 1988) In the following essay, Washington asserts that Walker does present some positive black male images in her work, and that her criticism of black men and women is in the spirit of helping them to...
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From: Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Wilentz discusses Walker’s preservation of African culture and rural Southern Black life in The Color Purple (1982), specifically the importance of the extended family and the...
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From:Feminist WritersAlice Walker calls herself a womanist, her term for a feminist of color. She outlines her definition of a womanist as a preface to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. A womanist, she explains, is...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 11. )Over three decades of continuous productivity and acclaim, Alice Walker has earned a place as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. She has published six novels, two collections of short...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is a professor of English and the coordinator of the writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses the quilting metaphor in “Everyday Use.”] Alice Walker's...
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From: Female Pastoral: Women Writers Re-Visioning the American South[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Harrison argues that Walker in The Color Purple (1982) rejects the “escape from the southern garden as solution” to victimization and imagines the same garden as liberating and...
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From: Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Hakutani contends that The Color Purple (1982) “reads as distinctly contemporary because it concerns the gender conflicts and racial issues of the African American tradition …...
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From: The New York Times Magazine[(essay date 8 January 1984) In the following essay, Bradley traces the devlopment of Walker's career and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of her writing.] I first met Alice Walker the way people used to: Someone...
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From: Dialogue[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Bealer compares Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God with Walker's The Color Purple, examining both from a feminist perspective.] I love the way Janie Crawford /...
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From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince the 1970s, the personal voice has been brought to bear more and more often on literary criticism, leading, Nancy Millet to describe the 1990s as a time of confessional culture that manifested itself in academia...
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From:MELUSPeer-ReviewedBy writing "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," Alice Walker hopes to fulfill a twofold purpose: to create a sense of literary continuity among black women by saving writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Phillis Wheatley...
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From:African American Writers (Vol. 2. 2nd ed.)MARY MARGARET RICHARDS Introduction IN A 1973 interview, Alice Walker said: I am preoccupied with the spiritual survival, the survival whole of my people. But beyond that, I am committed to exploring the...