Meridian (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Meridian Hill, Truman Held, Lynne Rabinowitz, Anne-Marion Coles, Mrs. Hill, Mr. Hill
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: New York, NY
The Novel
Meridian explores a number of cultural legacies important to African Americans. The primary legacy is the meaning of the Civil Rights movement, both to those who were its major players and to future generations. In exploring these ideas, Walker uses characters with the spirit of the movement rather than its actual leaders. A novel ostensibly about the Civil Rights movement becomes one that uses the entire African American cultural and historical experience as both background and foreground. This idea becomes clear upon examination of the structural pattern of...
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