Meridian (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Political fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Social action, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Politics, Racism, Revolutionaries, Sexism, New York City, Interracial relationships, Art or artists, Rape, Women’s issues, Georgia, Adultery, Mississippi, Death or dying, Abortion, Riots, Alabama
- Locales: New York, NY, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama
Walker's second novel, Meridian, explores one black woman's experience in the Civil Rights movement, the psychological makeup of which fascinates Walker more than the political and historical impact it had. Meridian exemplifies Walker's ability to combine the personal and the political in fiction. Whereas Walker's first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, moves chronologically, Meridian is constructed of smaller “chapters” that make up the novel, as Walker has said, much as pieces of cloth compose a quilt.
Meridian Hill grows up in the...
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