Walker, Alice | GATHERING BLOSSOMS UNDER FIRE : the journals of Alice Walker 1965-2000

En djupgående och illustrerad redogörelse av en kvinnas liv, konstnärliga utveckling och aktivism genom personliga dagboksanteckningar.

• Intim och personlig biografi av Alice Walker.

• Samling av journaler från 1965 till 2000.

• Utgiven som häftat band.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Orion Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780297608394

Omfång: 538 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2022-04-12

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A beautifully illustrated, definitive account of Alice Walker's life, told in the Pulitzer Prize winner's singular voice

A beautifully illustrated, definitive account of Alice Walker's life, told in the Pulitzer Prize winner's singular voice

From the acclaimed author Alice Walker - winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize - comes an unprecedented compilation of four decades' worth of journals that draw an intimate portrait of her development as an artist, intellectual and human rights activist.

In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate, intimate record of her intellectual, artistic and political development. She also intimately explores - in real time - 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 writes about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., or 'the King' as she called him; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, partly to defy laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; the birth of her daughter; 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, in sometimes equal measure, for her work and her activism; burying her mother; and her estrangement from her own daughter. The personal and the political are layered and intertwined in the revealing narrative that emerges from Walker's journals.

Redaktör: Valerie Boyd

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