Alice Walker

Alice Walker
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	Eatonton, Georgia
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	romanopisac, novelistica, pjesnikinja
Opus
Književne vrste	Afroamerička književnost
Znamenita djela
The Color Purple
Inspiracija
Od Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston
Na Gayl Jones

Alice Malsenior Walker (9.2. 1944.-) je američka spisateljica i feministica. Godine 1983. je za svoj hvaljeni roman The Color Purple dobila Pulitzerovu nagradu za fikciju.

Odabrana djela

Romani i zbirke priča

• The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
• Everyday Use (1973)
• In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
• Meridian (roman) (1976)
• The Color Purple (1982)
• You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
• Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (1983)
• To Hell With Dying (1988)
• The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
• Finding the Green Stone (1991)
• Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
• The Complete Stories (1994)
• By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
• The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
• Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005)

Zbirke poezije

• Once (1968)
• Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
• Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
• Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
• Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
• Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
• A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
• Collected Poems (2005)

Publicistika

• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
• Living by the Word (1988)
• Warrior Marks (1993)
• The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
• Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
• Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
• Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
• Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
• Women
• We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
• Mississippi Winter IV

Knjige o Alice Walker

• Alice Walker: A Life, Evelyn C. White, Norton, 2004

Vanjske veze

• The Sabanci University School of Languages Podcasts: The World in Alice Walker's Eye
• Poem: A Mother's Day Plea
• Living By Grace
• Alice Walker on AALBC.com
• New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Interview with Alice Walker by ascent magazine

=Video

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• "Alice Walker on the 'Toxic Culture' of Globalization", from Democracy Now! program, October 27, 2004
• "'I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan' - Author, Actress, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own Words", interview from Democracy Now! program, February 13, 2006
• "Alice Walker in Black and White"

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