Alice Walker (1) (1944–)

Auteur de La couleur pourpre

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A propos de l'auteur

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three afficher plus collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California. Like so many characters in her fiction, Alice Walker was born into a family of sharecroppers in Eaton, Georgia. She began Spelman College on a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. While still in college, Walker became active in the civil rights movement and continued her involvement after she graduated, serving as a voter registration worker in Georgia. She also worked in a Head Start program in Mississippi and was on the staff of the New York City welfare department. She has lectured and taught at several colleges and universities and currently operates a publishing house, Wild Trees Press, of which she is a co-founder. Walker began her literary career as a poet, publishing Once: Poems in 1968. The collection reflects her experiences in the civil rights movement and her travels in Africa. Her second collection of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973), is a celebration of the struggle against oppression and racism. In between these two collections, she published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), the story of Ruth Copeland, a young black girl, and her grandfather, Grange, who brutalizes his own family out of the frustrations of racial prejudice and his own sense of inadequacy. Walker's first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973), established her special concern for the struggles, hardships, loyalties, and triumphs of black women, a powerful force in the rest of her fiction. Meridian (1976), her second novel, is the story of Meridian Hill, a civil rights worker. In her second collection of short stories, You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down (1981), Walker again portrays black women struggling against sexual, racial, and economic oppression. Walker's third novel, The Color Purple (1982), brought her the national recognition denied her earlier works. Through this story of the sharecropper Celie and the abuses she endures, Walker draws together the themes that have run through her earlier work into a concentrated and powerful attack on racism and sexism, and produces a triumphant celebration of the spirit and endurance of black women. The book received the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful film. Walker describes her most recent novel, The Temple of My Familiar (1989) as "a romance of the last 500,000 years." The book is a blend of myth and history revolving around three marriages. As the married couples tell their stories, they explore both their origins and the inner life of modern African Americans. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Crédit image: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

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The Color Purple Collection

Œuvres de Alice Walker

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La couleur pourpre (1982) 20,046 exemplaires, 338 critiques

The Temple of My Familiar (1989) 2,451 exemplaires, 21 critiques

Le secret de la joie (1992) 2,245 exemplaires, 34 critiques

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) 1,414 exemplaires, 10 critiques

Meridian (1976) 1,310 exemplaires, 12 critiques

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down (1981) 864 exemplaires, 8 critiques

By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998) 770 exemplaires, 9 critiques

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In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) 721 exemplaires, 9 critiques

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) 547 exemplaires, 9 critiques

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (1996) 467 exemplaires, 7 critiques

The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) 446 exemplaires, 1 critique

Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997) 403 exemplaires

Living by the Word (1988) 366 exemplaires, 1 critique

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete (1991) 322 exemplaires, 1 critique

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women (1992) 299 exemplaires, 1 critique

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1984) 269 exemplaires, 6 critiques

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness (2006) 262 exemplaires, 4 critiques

Revolutionary Petunias (1973) 208 exemplaires, 1 critique

Why War Is Never a Good Idea (2007) 203 exemplaires, 27 critiques

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems (2003) 178 exemplaires, 2 critiques

Once: Poems (1976) 159 exemplaires, 2 critiques

Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979) 145 exemplaires, 2 critiques

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me (2006) 141 exemplaires, 9 critiques

To Hell with Dying (1988) 137 exemplaires, 4 critiques

Alice Walker: The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple (Black Expressions Rediscovered) (1989) 136 exemplaires

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir (2011) 133 exemplaires, 5 critiques

Langston Hughes: American Poet (1974) 117 exemplaires, 15 critiques

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2010) 117 exemplaires, 3 critiques

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings (2003) 105 exemplaires, 2 critiques

Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (2018) 102 exemplaires, 4 critiques

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel (2010) 92 exemplaires, 8 critiques

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker (2022) 92 exemplaires

Finding the Green Stone (1991) 91 exemplaires, 3 critiques

The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2012) 87 exemplaires

Everyday Use (1973) 82 exemplaires

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (2013) 63 exemplaires, 5 critiques

Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (2001) 59 exemplaires

Alice Walker Banned (1996) 54 exemplaires

The Complete Stories (1994) 54 exemplaires, 1 critique

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker (2010) 53 exemplaires

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way (2013) 39 exemplaires

The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar (2011) 27 exemplaires

Sweet People Are Everywhere (Children Around the World Books, Diversity Books) (2021) 26 exemplaires, 1 critique

Pema Chödrön & Alice Walker in Conversation on the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy (1999) — Features — 25 exemplaires, 2 critiques

Collected Poems (2005) 19 exemplaires

Alice Walker Fiction (3 Volume Boxed Set) (1985) 12 exemplaires

Alice Walker Poetry (1985) 11 exemplaires

Selected from the Temple of My Familiar (1992) 10 exemplaires

Gardening the Soul (2000) 7 exemplaires, 1 critique

The Color Purple / The Complete Stories (1900) 6 exemplaires

Moeders en dochters (1988) 6 exemplaires

Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (1993) 5 exemplaires

My Life As My Self (1995) 4 exemplaires

The Sweet Abyss (2004) 4 exemplaires, 1 critique

Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom (1986) 4 exemplaires

Turkoois en koraal ; Leven onder woorden (1996) 3 exemplaires

Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories: Living by the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Love & Trouble, and… (2018) 3 exemplaires

Följeslagaren (1990) 3 exemplaires

Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 (English Edition) (2011) 3 exemplaires

Zugvögel (2002) 2 exemplaires

Ihre braune Umarmung. Aus den Gesammelten Gedichten 1965 - 1990. Band 2. (1995) 2 exemplaires

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (DVD) 2 exemplaires

Omnibus: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian 2 exemplaires

Die Erfahrung, des Südens, Good Morning Revolution, (1991) 2 exemplaires

In Love and in Trouble 2 exemplaires

Kindred Spirits 1 exemplaire

“How Poems are Made / A Discredited View” 1 exemplaire

Alice Walker Interview With Kay Bonetti (1981) 1 exemplaire

Strong Horse Tea {short story} 1 exemplaire

Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 1 exemplaire

Looking for Zora 1 exemplaire

Really, Doesn't Crime Pay? 1 exemplaire

Freedomways Volume 23 (Number 4) 1 exemplaire

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation 1 exemplaire

Alice Walker Reading Nineteen Fifty Five (1981) 1 exemplaire

Walker, Alice Archive 1 exemplaire

Ninguém segura esta mulher 1 exemplaire

Am I Blue 1 exemplaire

Human Rights in the World Today : Women Under Attack 1 exemplaire

From Alice Walker 1 exemplaire

Coming Apart {article} 1 exemplaire

All Things Censored 1 exemplaire

"The Flowers" 1 exemplaire

Why I'm Joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza 1 exemplaire

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Nom légal: Walker, Alice Malsenior
Autres noms: WALKER, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate
WALKER, Alice Malsenior
WALKER, Alice
Date de naissance: 1944-02-09
Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Eatonton, Georgia, USA
Lieux de résidence: Jackson, Mississippi, USA
New York, New York, USA
California, USA
Études: Spelman College
Sarah Lawrence College (BA)
Professions: poet
political activist
novelist
Relations: Chapman, Tracy (former partner)
Organisations: Wild Trees Press (cofounder)
Prix et distinctions: Lillian Smith Award (National Endowment for the Arts)
Rosenthal Award (National Institute of Arts and Letters)
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Front Page Award (Newswoman's Club of New York)
Townsend Prize (tout afficher 11)
Lyndhurst Prize
California Hall of Fame (2006)
Humanist of the Year (1997)
Pulitzer Prize (1982)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2016)

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La Couleur pourpre par Alice Walker

> Dans ce poignant roman épistolaire, Alice Walker dénonce la misère, l’oppression raciale et sexuelle des femmes noires du Sud des Etats-Unis. Abusée, engrossée deux fois par son beau-père à quatorze ans, Célie est vite mariée à Albert, un homme qui cherche une domestique plus qu’une épouse... Dans ce ménage improbable, le mépris du mari va de paire avec les coups. La jeune soeur de Célie, Nettie, qui s’est installée avec eux, est chassée par Albert après avoir repoussé ses avances et réussit à partir pour l’Afrique. Ne sachant pas où joindre sa soeur, Célie commence pourtant à lui écrire des lettres, qu’elle adresse à “ce cher bon Dieu”. Cette correspondance sans retour la sauvera du désespoir.
—Figariscope

« Un récit bouleversant sur le combat des femmes pour l'égalité et l'indépendance. »
—The New York Times Book Review… (plus d'informations)

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