{"product_id":"alice-walker","title":"Alice Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world's most respected African American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, Walker began to draw on both her personal tragedies and those of her community to write poetry, essays, short stories, and novels that would tell the virtually untold stories of oppressed African and African American women, providing readers with hope and inspiring activisim. Perhaps best known for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and became a controversial film three years later, Walker has introduced and developed womanist theory, criticism and practice, and continues to champion the causes of women of color by encouraging their strength and liberation in her life and her writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary works analyzed in this volume: \u003ci\u003eThe Third Life of Grange Copeland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMeridian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Temple of My Familiar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePossessing the Secret of Joy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBy the Light of My Father's Smile\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNow is the Time to Open Your Heart\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54220184551768,"sku":"9780313320248","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/alice-walker","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}