Walker, Alice (Vol. 5) - Walker, Alice 1944–
Walker, Alice 1944–
Ms Walker is a Black American novelist, short story writer, and poet, born in Georgia and now living and teaching in Massachusetts. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 37-40.)
Alice Walker has delivered a magnificent first novel in The Third Life of Grange Copeland. It is about three generations of black sharecroppers in Georgia. Suffering deprivations foisted upon them by white bosses, they are still significantly the victims of cruelties inflicted upon each other—cruelties that emanate from a profound lack of self-respect, fostered by whites and blacks alike, and a powerfully destructive despair. The tremendous difficulty of emerging from these depths is what Miss Walker sets out to dramatize. She begins with Grange Copeland's early failure as a sharecropper, father, husband, and man—a life he abruptly and unilaterally abandons for a new one in the North, which almost predictably turns out to be no less...
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