Walker, Alice (Vol. 6) | Walker, Alice 1944–
Walker, Alice 1944–
Ms Walker is a Black American novelist, poet, and short story writer. Much of her writing reveals her concerns with Black women and families; her novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland was praised for its honesty and eloquence. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 37-40.)
Alice Walker's graphic first novel ["The Third Life of Grange Copeland"] delivers a powerful statement by letting the narrative, characters and episodes speak for themselves. In describing the lives of black sharecroppers from 1920 through the 1960s, [Miss Walker] … could have taken the easy, tiresome way out by haranguing for militancy, revenge and separatism. Instead, she allows the reader to make his own assessment of Southern conditions and the desperate need for change.
Miss Walker's haunting tale of three generations of a sharecropper's family attempting to overcome white oppression is candid, sensitive and tragic. Inevitably, one...
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