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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Purpurfärgen (1982) 19,602 exemplar
The Temple of My Familiar (1989) 2,421 exemplar
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) 2,212 exemplar
Meridian (1976) 1,297 exemplar
Det svarta arvet (1970) 740 exemplar
Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997) 399 exemplar
Living by the Word (1988) 360 exemplar
Omskärelsen (1992) 294 exemplar
Revolutionary Petunias (1973) 205 exemplar
Why War Is Never a Good Idea (2007) 196 exemplar
Once: Poems (1976) 156 exemplar
To Hell with Dying (1967) 136 exemplar
Langston Hughes: American Poet (1974) 116 exemplar
Finding the Green Stone (1611) 89 exemplar
Everyday Use (1973) 80 exemplar
Alice Walker Banned (1996) 54 exemplar
The Complete Stories (1994) 53 exemplar
Collected Poems (2005) 17 exemplar
Alice Walker Poetry (1985) 11 exemplar
Gardening the Soul (2000) 7 exemplar
Moeders en dochters (1988) 6 exemplar
My Life As My Self (1995) 4 exemplar
The Sweet Abyss (2004) 4 exemplar
Följeslagaren (1990) 3 exemplar
Kindred Spirits 1 exemplar
Zugvögel (2002) 1 exemplar
Looking for Zora 1 exemplar
Am I Blue 1 exemplar
From Alice Walker 1 exemplar
"The Flowers" 1 exemplar

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Boken är lite svårläst, för de delar som är skrivna ur Celies perspektiv är skrivna på afrikan-amerikanska och sydstatsdialekt. Som att läsa en transkriberad intervju ;) Men det ger även karaktär till berättelsen så bara man kommer in i det, så är det bra.… (mer)
 
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angelicaan | 334 andra recensioner | Nov 29, 2010 |
En gripande historia framlagd i en brevroman. Jag läste den på orginalspråk, och en av de största behållningarna är - utan tvekan - språket.
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