Conversations with Margaret Walker
Author: Margaret Walker
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781578065110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Walker
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781578065110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Walker
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781578065127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Margaret Walker (1915-1998) began her writing career as a poet in the late 1930s. But she was cast into the limelight in 1966 when her novel Jubilee was published to wide critical and commercial acclaim. In interviews ranging from 1972 to 1996, Conversations with Margaret Walker captures Walker's voice as she discusses an incredibly wide range of interests. The same erudition, wit, and love of language on display in Jubilee comes through in conversations, as well as her sense of moral authority--imbued by a resonant Christian humanism--and her attention to historical detail. In a long 1972 conversation with fellow poet Nikki Giovanni, Walker argues about the tribulations and triumphs of motherhood, the presence of black women in literature, and race relations in American culture from 1900 to the present. With Marcia Greenlee in 1977, she talks extensively about her family's history and her love of botany. In several of the interviews, her friendship with Richard Wright rises to the forefront. Even in her interviews with Claudia Tate and John Griffin Jones, in which the interviewers try to direct the conversations toward the mechanics and thought processes behind Walker's writing, the talks often sweep into broader issues of African American culture, family history, and the past's influence on the present. This collection amply shows that Margaret Walker was a writer who considered her work to be deeply influenced by the culture around her. She viewed her writing as part of her larger life and not separate or distanced from her existence. Bracingly direct, witty, and oddly charming, the writer in Conversations with Margaret Walker is complicated, passionate, forceful, and piercingly intelligent.
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Profiles the founder of the "New Town" movement and discusses the development of British new towns, the Radburn Idea, Greenbelt Towns, and the American new towns such as Reston and Columbia.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0820342394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In selecting Margaret Walker as the recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942—making her the first African American to receive this national literary award—Stephen Vincent Benét proclaimed hers a vibrant new voice, finding in her collection For My People “a controlled intensity of emotion and a language that, at times, even when it is most modern, has something of a surge of biblical poetry.” Today, more than seventy years later, Walker’s voice still resonates with particular power. Addressing the literature and culture of black America, This Is My Century, first published in 1989, marked a significant contribution to American poetry, bringing together Walker’s selection of one hundred of her own poems. On the eve of the centennial of Walker’s birth, the University of Georgia Press is proud to reissue this classic of American letters. In addition to her award-winning debut collection, the volume includes Prophets for a New Day (1970), a celebration of the civil rights movement; October Journey (1973), a collection of autobiographical and dedicatory poems; and thirty-seven previously uncollected poems.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780395924952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780878057818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interviews with the author of Invisible Man and many other works
Author: Sonia Sanchez
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781578069521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collected interviews with the poet, activist, and author of Home Coming and We a BaddDDD People
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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published:
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781617032240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronicles the life of civil rights activist Aaron Henry.
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2007-11-06
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1595585893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called “stunningly insightful” and “a book that will inspire hope” by Publishers Weekly. Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change. The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room–only crowds and standing ovations. Walker’s clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly “a light in darkness”—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0820346985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker’s writing: folklore and prophecy, place and space, history and politics, gender and race. In addition, the contributors remark on how Walker’s emphases on spirituality and on dignity in her daily life make themselves felt in her writings and show how Walker’s accomplishments as a scholar, teacher, activist, mother, and family elder influenced what and how she wrote. A brief biography, an interview with literary critic Claudia Tate, a chronology of major events in Walker’s life, and a selected bibliography round out this collection, which will do much to further our understanding of the writer whom poet Nikki Giovanni once called “the most famous person nobody knows.”