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Alice Walker by Maria Lauret (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited
ISBN-100230575897
ISBN-139780230575899
eBay Product ID (ePID)109333857
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAlice Walker
Publication Year2011
SubjectWomen, Women Authors, American / African American, Modern / 20th Century
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
AuthorMaria Lauret
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2010-053347
Dewey Edition22
Reviews'In this second edition, Lauret offers a fuller, richer, more compelling, updated text that showcases the impressive range and depth of her investigations into Walker scholarship.' - Loretta Woodard, Marygrove College, USA, "In this second edition, Lauret offers a fuller, richer, more compelling, updated text that showcases the impressive range and depth of her investigations into Walker scholarship." -- Loretta Woodard, Marygrove College
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Foreword to the Second Edition: Alice Walker Ten Years Later Alice Walker's Life and Work: An Introduction The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) Meridian (1976) The Color Purple (1982) The Temple of My Familiar (1989) Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998) and Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) A Writer's Activism and its Critics: An Epilogue Notes Select Bibliography Index.
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisWhen it was first published, Lauret's text was one of the first book-length studies of Alice Walker's prose to appear in Britain. This new edition has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship and brings coverage of the full range of Walker's work up-to-date with the author's literary production, activism and life-events since 2000., Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple', is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature? 'Alice Walker, second edition': * examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs * has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments * brings coverage of Walker's work right up to date with a new chapter on 'Now is the Time to Open Your Heart' (2004), and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including 'Overcoming Speechlessness' (2010) * traces Walker's lineage back to nineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists * assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US author as it explains her unique place in contemporary American letters., Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple , is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature? Alice Walker , second edition: * Examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings, speeches and memoirs * Has been thoroughly revised in the light of the latest scholarship and critical developments * Brings coverage of Walker's work right up to date with a new chapter on Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004), and discussion of her recent non-fictional writing, including Overcoming Speechlessness (2010) *Traces Walker'slineage back tonineteenth-century visionary black women preachers and activists * Assesses Walkers prose oeuvre both in terms of its literary and its activist merits and shortcomings. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this established text remains an essential guide to the work of a key US authoras it explainsher unique place in contemporary American letters. "
LC Classification NumberPN1-PN6790
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