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Gathering Blossoms under Fire : The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 by Alice Walker (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAtria Books
ISBN-101476773157
ISBN-139781476773155
eBay Product ID (ePID)234606707
Product Key Features
Book TitleGathering Blossoms under Fire : the Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
Number of Pages560 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAmerican / African American, Cultural Heritage, Literary
Publication Year2022
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
AuthorAlice Walker
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight30.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-047979
Reviews"Those who know Alice Walker's body of work know that she inspired a generation of Black women writers who continue to impact America's literary landscape. And didn't so many of us read Walker to understand how to survive this place, to fight to become whole, to pull self-love to our fleshy, dark selves? And now, to read Walker's journals--decades of unfiltered musings showing us a complex person with sorrows, triumphs, flaws, and beauties--feels like witnessing a medicine moment, a griotte's testimony." --Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
SynopsisFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual. For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Women's Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple ; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; and burying her mother. A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.A425Z46 2022
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