Dec 31, 2009
The Third Life of Grange Copeland | The Third Life of Grange Copeland
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: From 1920 to the early 1960’s
- Setting: Rural Georgia and New York City
- Principal Characters: Grange Copeland, Margaret Copeland, Brownfield Copeland, Mem Copeland, Josie Copeland
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Family literature
- Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, New York City, Domestic violence, Georgia, Farms, farmers, or farming
- Locales: New York, NY, Georgia
The Novel
The Third Life of Grange Copeland, a three-generational account of the Copeland family,
begins in rural Georgia in the 1920’s and ends during the early stages of the Civil Rights
movement in the early 1960’s. The novel records the impact of racism and poverty on one
family by emphasizing what it does to individuals and by showing what individuals must do to keep
alive kinship, the strongest weapon black people have to fight injustice.
Using a conventional chronological plot and an omniscient third-person narrative point of view,
Walker begins by...
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