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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (Eatonton, 9 de fevereiro de 1944) é uma escritora, poeta e ativista feminista norte-americana. Escreveu o romance A Cor Púrpura , pelo qual ganhou o National Book Award [ 1 ] e o Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção .
- Early Life
- Writing Career
- Activism
- Accusations of Antisemitism and Praise For David Icke
- Personal Life
- Representation in Other Media
- Awards and Honors
- Further Reading
- External Links
Alice Malsenior Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural farming town, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant. Both of Walker's parents were sharecroppers, though her mother also worked as a seamstress to earn extra money. Walker, the youngest of eight children, was first enrolled in school when she was just four years old at East Putn...
Walker wrote the poems that would culminate in her first book of poetry, entitled Once, while she was a student in East Africa and during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. Walker would slip her poetry under the office door of her professor and mentor, Muriel Rukeyser, when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence. Rukeyser then showed the poems...
Civil rights
Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College in the early 1960s. She credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. She took part in the 1963 March on Washingtonwith hundreds of thousands of people. Later, she volunteered to register black voters in Georgia and Mississippi. On March 8, 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Walker was arrested with 26 others, including fellow autho...
Womanism
Walker's specific brand of feminism included advocacy on behalf of women of color. In 1983, Walker coined the term womanist in her collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, to mean "a black feminist or feminist of color". The term was made to unite women of color and the feminist movement at "the intersection of race, class, and gender oppression". Walker states that "'Womanism' gives us a word of our own". because it is a discourse of Black women and the issues they confront in society....
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Walker is a judge member of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, and she also supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctionscampaign against Israel. In January 2009, Walker was one of over fifty signatories of a letter protesting against the Toronto International Film Festival's "City to City" spotlight on Israeli filmmakers, and condemning Israel as an "apartheid regime". Two months later, Walker and sixty other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink traveled to Gaza in response to...
Since 2012, Walker has expressed appreciation for the works of the British conspiracy theorist David Icke. On BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, she said that Icke's book Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More, which contains antisemitic conspiracy theories, would be the book she would take to a desert island. The book promotes the ...
In 1965, Walker met Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They were married on March 17, 1967, in New York City. Later that year, the couple relocated to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi since miscegenation laws were introduced in the state. The couple had a daughter, Rebe...
Beauty in Truth (2013) is a documentary film about Walker directed by Pratibha Parmar. Phalia (Portrait of Alice Walker) (1989) is a photograph by Maud Sulter from her Zabat series originally produced for the Rochdale Art Galleryin England.
Candace Award, Arts and Letters, National Coalition of 100 Black Women(1982)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983) for The Color PurpleWhite, Evelyn C. (2005). Alice Walker: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32826-4.Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha (1993). Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women. Diane Books Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7881-5581-9.Profile at the Poetry FoundationProfile at Poets.org13 de mai. de 2024 · A writer and feminist, Alice Walker is especially known for novels, poems, and short stories that offer great insight into African American culture and often focus on women. For the novel The Color Purple (1982), she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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Alice Malsenior Walker (Condado_de_Putnam_(Geórgia), 9 de fevereiro de 1944) é uma escritora estado-unidense e ativista feminista.Filha de agricultores, ela perdeu a visão de um dos olhos aos 8 anos de idade, num acidente. Graças à sua dedicação, Alice Walker conseguiu sucessivas bolsas de estudos, graduando-se em artes pelo Sarah La
Alice Walker (nascida em 9 de fevereiro de 1944) é uma escritora e ativista, talvez mais conhecida como a autora de "A Cor Púrpura" e mais de 20 outros livros e coleções de poesia . Ela também é conhecida por recuperar o trabalho de Zora Neale Hurston e por seu trabalho contra a circuncisão feminina.
Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.
Data do Encontro: 10 de março de 2021. “A cor púrpura”, de Alice Walker, é um romance feminista sobre a força e dignidade do espírito humano. A comovente trajetória de Celie se passa na pequena cidade da Geórgia (EUA) em 1909, em uma época marcada pelo racismo. Trata-se de um romance epistolar, com a linguagem peculiar de uma ...
