Dec 21, 2009

Meridian | Meridian

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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Meridian | Meridian

At a glance:

The Novel

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