the color of purple
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Alice Walker Race and Gender highlighted in writings, influenced by her activismTRANSCRIPT
THE COLOR OF PURPLE
Alice Walker
Race and Gender highlighted in writings, influenced by her activism
By Gayle Fergusson
Troy University
VISION OF ALICE Born February 9, 1944,
American author, poet and activist Alice Malsenior Walker wrote both fiction and essays about race and gender.
As a student of Spellman College in the 1960s, Walker got a chance tomeet Martin Luther King III and credits him for her choice to be an activist.
Won Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction for “The Color Purple”, O. Henry award for “Kindred Spirits”.
VIEWS OF 1909 TIMES OF THE BOOK – THE COLOR PURPLE
Slavery Poverty Abuse Gender
“Part of the creation of the color purple is just to be more intimate with my ancestors in a time when I didn’t exist.” Walker
VIEWS OF 1909 TIMES OF THE BOOK –
THE COLOR PURPLE
Women’s struggle (images the acclaimed movie by Stephen Spielberg)
“Part of the creation of the color purple is just to be more intimate with my ancestors in a time when I didn’t exist.” Walker
“In the early 1960s, the fundamental prize sought by the civil rights movement was something that African Americans had never known: full legal equality.” (JFK in History)
VIEWS OF 1960 TIMES OF THE SHORT STORY – KINDRED SPIRITS
FEMINISM1960 Women’s Liberation Movement
VIEWS OF 1960 TIMES OF THE SHORT STORY –
KINDRED SPIRITS
VIEWS OF 1973 TIMES OF THE SHORT STORY – EVERYDAY USE
Poverty Racism Gender
“Written during the heyday of the Black Power movement, when African Americans were trying to gain racial equality and called for self determination and racial dignity.“ (Johannes)
WORKS CITED Hoffman, Melody K. The Color Purple. Jet 119.6 14 Feb 2011:
42. Johnson Pub. Co. 3 Dec 2012. "Civil Rights Movement." JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. n. page. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. <http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Civil-Rights-Movement.asp&xgt;>
N. Sink, . "1960's - 1980's Women's Liberation Movement ." (2008): n. page. Web. 5 Dec. 2012. <http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/womenslliberation/womensliberation.htm>
Alice Walker: Everyday Use, Uncommon Art “Films Media Group” (2003) Web. 5 Dec. 2012 http://ffh.films.com/id/5979/Alice_Walker_Everyday_Use_Uncommon_Art.htm
Johannes Timpe, 2005, Alice Walker - Everyday Use, München, GRIN Verlag GmbH, <http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/vorschau/109496.html