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1,649 wordsAlice Walker It is very difficult to write about womans literature and its women-writers. Such writers like Alice Walker try to show the life of ordinary African-American women with all their joys and troubles. What are the main ideas of her prose? What inspires her to write such short stories like Everyday Use and such talented novels like The Color Purple? Alice Walker is very talented writer. Her works are dedicated to serious problems of African-American population of our country. Her books ...
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4,988 wordsWhat Makes The Color Purple a Southern Novel? Southern Literature can be defined as writing about the South written by southern authors. However, novels like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man display characteristics linked to the southern imagination, but written by a non-southerner whose work considered part of the literary genre. Southern writing can also concern a southerners experience elsewhere, but it can also include a southerners writing on a non-southern topic from a non-southern point of v...
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6,443 wordsStephen Vincent Ben? t, Editor Excerpt from the Foreword to For My People Straightforwardness, directness, reality are good things to find in a young poet. It is rarer to find them combined with a controlled intensity of emotion and a language that, at times, even when it is most modern, has something of the surge of biblical poetry. And it is obvious that Miss Walker uses that language because it comes naturally to her and is part of her inheritance. A contemporary writer, living in a contempor...
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790 wordsDavid Walkers Appeals As I read David Walkers Appeals, I notice this final edition was published by Black Classic Press. Websters dictionary defines a classic as having lasting significance or worth; enduring. Under these terms, I would have to disagree. Despite great efforts of both the North and South to stop its publication, David Walkers Appeal became one of the most widely read and circulated books ever written by a black person. Walker was considered a hero by most abolitionists, who consi...
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2,842 wordsDonna Allen Margaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents, the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister and an educator, and Marion Dozier Walker, a music teacher, encouraged her to read poetry and philosophy from an early age. Walker completed her high school education at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, where her family had moved in 1925. She went on to attend New Orleans University (now Dillard University) for two years. Then, after ac...
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