In Search of the Color Purple
Salamishah Tillet
**Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, *The Color Purple***Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the �rst black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for *The Color Purple*. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence.Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker's epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. *The Color Purple* received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an...
Year:
2021
Publisher:
Abrams
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
1683356853
ISBN 13:
9781683356851
File:
FB2 , 4.59 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2021
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