Alice Walker

by Maria Lauret

Book Overview

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple', is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature?

'Alice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230575897
• ISBN13: 9780230575899
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"