Alice Walker (1) (1944–)
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Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three mostra altro collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California. Like so many characters in her fiction, Alice Walker was born into a family of sharecroppers in Eaton, Georgia. She began Spelman College on a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. While still in college, Walker became active in the civil rights movement and continued her involvement after she graduated, serving as a voter registration worker in Georgia. She also worked in a Head Start program in Mississippi and was on the staff of the New York City welfare department. She has lectured and taught at several colleges and universities and currently operates a publishing house, Wild Trees Press, of which she is a co-founder. Walker began her literary career as a poet, publishing Once: Poems in 1968. The collection reflects her experiences in the civil rights movement and her travels in Africa. Her second collection of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), is a celebration of the struggle against oppression and racism. In between these two collections, she published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), the story of Ruth Copeland, a young black girl, and her grandfather, Grange, who brutalizes his own family out of the frustrations of racial prejudice and his own sense of inadequacy. Walker's first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), established her special concern for the struggles, hardships, loyalties, and triumphs of black women, a powerful force in the rest of her fiction. Meridian (1976), her second novel, is the story of Meridian Hill, a civil rights worker. In her second collection of short stories, You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down (1981), Walker again portrays black women struggling against sexual, racial, and economic oppression. Walker's third novel, The Color Purple (1982), brought her the national recognition denied her earlier works. Through this story of the sharecropper Celie and the abuses she endures, Walker draws together the themes that have run through her earlier work into a concentrated and powerful attack on racism and sexism, and produces a triumphant celebration of the spirit and endurance of black women. The book received the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful film. Walker describes her most recent novel, The Temple of My Familiar (1989) as "a romance of the last 500,000 years." The book is a blend of myth and history revolving around three marriages. As the married couples tell their stories, they explore both their origins and the inner life of modern African Americans. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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Opere di Alice Walker
Nella luce del sorriso di mio padre: una storia di amore ricambiato, di guadi da superare e della guarigione sessuale… (1998) 770 copie, 9 recensioni
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (1992) 299 copie, 1 recensione
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness (2006) 262 copie, 4 recensioni
Alice Walker: The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple (Black Expressions Rediscovered) (1989) 136 copie
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010) 92 copie, 8 recensioni
The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2012) 87 copie
Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (2001) 59 copie
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way (2013) 39 copie
Sweet People Are Everywhere (Children Around the World Books, Diversity Books) (2021) 26 copie, 1 recensione
Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (1999) — Features — 25 copie, 2 recensioni
Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (1993) 5 copie
Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and… (2018) 3 copie
Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 (English Edition) (2011) 3 copie
In Love and in Trouble 2 copie
Kindred Spirits 1 copia
Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 copia
Looking for Zora 1 copia
Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 copia
Freedomways Volume 23 (Number 4) 1 copia
Walker, Alice Archive 1 copia
Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 copia
Am I Blue 1 copia
From Alice Walker 1 copia
Coming Apart {article} 1 copia
All Things Censored 1 copia
"The Flowers" 1 copia
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 938 copie, 7 recensioni
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Collaboratore — 521 copie, 4 recensioni
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (2003) — alcune edizioni — 498 copie, 5 recensioni
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World (1987) — Collaboratore — 469 copie, 1 recensione
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Collaboratore — 450 copie, 4 recensioni
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Lookin Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (1979) — A cura di — 426 copie, 1 recensione
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Collaboratore — 421 copie, 1 recensione
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Collaboratore — 403 copie, 4 recensioni
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Collaboratore — 381 copie, 3 recensioni
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Collaboratore — 376 copie, 3 recensioni
Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality (1989) — Collaboratore — 362 copie, 2 recensioni
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Collaboratore — 278 copie, 1 recensione
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Collaboratore — 236 copie, 1 recensione
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 184 copie, 1 recensione
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Collaboratore — 182 copie, 1 recensione
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Collaboratore — 181 copie, 4 recensioni
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Collaboratore — 177 copie, 1 recensione
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Collaboratore — 162 copie
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Collaboratore — 150 copie
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Collaboratore — 140 copie, 1 recensione
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 134 copie, 1 recensione
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Collaboratore — 121 copie, 2 recensioni
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Collaboratore — 120 copie, 1 recensione
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Collaboratore — 116 copie
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women (1990) — Collaboratore — 105 copie
How to Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (2005) — Prefazione — 104 copie, 3 recensioni
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Collaboratore — 102 copie
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1994) — Collaboratore — 100 copie
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (2012) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 92 copie, 4 recensioni
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (2001) — Collaboratore — 92 copie, 2 recensioni
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (2001) — Collaboratore — 90 copie, 1 recensione
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Collaboratore — 87 copie
Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (2003) — Prefazione — 85 copie, 2 recensioni
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Collaboratore — 79 copie
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Collaboratore — 75 copie, 1 recensione
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Collaboratore — 69 copie, 1 recensione
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Collaboratore — 58 copie
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Collaboratore — 51 copie, 2 recensioni
With Wings: An Anthology of Literature by and about Women with Disabilities (1987) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America (2012) — Afterpoem — 37 copie
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (2004) — Collaboratore — 35 copie, 1 recensione
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Collaboratore — 32 copie, 1 recensione
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, and Journals (1996) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 26 copie
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Collaboratore — 24 copie, 5 recensioni
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Collaboratore — 23 copie
Tanya Holland's California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West (2022) — Prefazione — 17 copie
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1992) — Collaboratore — 11 copie, 1 recensione
America's Original Sin: A Study Guide on White Racism (1994) — Collaboratore — 10 copie, 1 recensione
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Bitter Southerner Magazine, Issue 2 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Walker, Alice Malsenior
- Altri nomi
- WALKER, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate
WALKER, Alice Malsenior
WALKER, Alice - Data di nascita
- 1944-02-09
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Eatonton, Georgia, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Istruzione
- Spelman College
Sarah Lawrence College (BA) - Attività lavorative
- poet
political activist
novelist - Relazioni
- Chapman, Tracy (former partner)
- Organizzazioni
- Wild Trees Press (cofounder)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lillian Smith Award (National Endowment for the Arts)
Rosenthal Award (National Institute of Arts and Letters)
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Front Page Award (Newswoman's Club of New York)
Townsend Prize (mostra tutto 11)
Lyndhurst Prize
California Hall of Fame (2006)
Humanist of the Year (1997)
Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2016)
Utenti
Recensioni
Un racconto a due voci attraverso una corrispondenza che non arriverà mai destinazione: la voce principale è quella di Celie, violentata dall'uomo che credeva essere suo padre, priva dei due figli, sposata a un uomo che odia. Sua sorella Nettie sfugge a un destino analogo e viene accolta da una coppia di missionari che hanno adottato bambini di Celie. Separate per trent'anni, le due sorelle vivono senza sapere nulla l'una dell'altra. Le lettere di Nettie non raggiungono Celie; e questa, oppressa dalla vergogna della sua condizione, non riesce a scrivere che a Dio. Ma la vita per Celie cambierà colore quando l'amante del marito, una donna eccezionale di nome Shug Avery, verrà a vivere con loro. Romanzo di intenso impatto emotivo, definito dalla critica americana "opera che resterà importante nella narrativa mondiale di tutti tempi", il colore viola ha ottenuto nel 1983 l'American Book Award e il Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa.… (altro)
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Ciò che ho apprezzato maggiormente è stata la volontà dell'autrice di mostrare la forza che c'è in una vittima e la debolezza e meschinità che stanno dietro alla violenza. E soprattutto: vittima e carnefice non sono ruoli scolpiti nella pietra e possono cambiare. Attenzione, cambiare, non scambiarsi. La vittima può imparare il coraggio di non subire la vita; il carnefice può imparare a prendersi le proprie responsabilità, fallimenti e fragilità incluse.
L'unico modo per riuscirci sembra essere la sconfitta dell'ignoranza, non solo del sapere, ma anche della consapevolezza di sé e del proprio valore. Celie pensa di essere niente finché non arriva Shug che le insegna ad apprezzare il suo essere donna, l'amore, la vita, la bellezza del mondo.
Vuoi farmi credere che Dio ti ama anche se non hai mai fatto niente per lui? Voglio dire, anche se non sei mai andata in chiesa, non hai mai cantato nel coro, non hai mai portato da mangiare al pastore e roba del genere?
Ma se Dio mi ama, Celie, non devo mica fare tutte queste cose. A meno che ne abbia voglia. C'è un sacco di altre cose che faccio che piacciono a Dio, ne sono sicura.
E cosa per esempio? chiedo io.
Oh, dice lei. Starmene tranquilla ad ammirare qualcosa. Esser felice. Divertirmi.… (altro)