Alice Waker
Allis
Walker, a well-known novelist, political activist, and human rights activist,
says that while black men have come forward to fight for their rights, women
have also come forward. Alex Walker is one of the women who has played a key
role in promoting civil rights. His writings are a milestone in the pursuit of
public rights. Let's find out what their living conditions are like.
Birth
and early life:
Famous
novelist, novelist, and political activist Alice Walker was born in 1944 in
Georgia, USA. Walker was the eighth child of his farming parents. Growing up in
the South, Walker felt bitterness, especially among black families, and that
bitterness was due to external stimuli, including injustice, unemployment and
being cut off from others.
When she was eight, Walker lost his sight
at gunpoint. Her parents could not provide her with adequate medical care.
Walker had a black spot on one eye for fourteen years. Walker's disability
allowed him to think outside the box, and this observation helped him become a
writer.
Walker began writing diaries and reading
steadfastly. "Books became my world because the world I was in was very
bitter."
Elementary
education training:
After
receiving the scholarship, Walker graduated from Atlantis Superman College and
then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1965. While working
for the civil rights movement, he met with Jewish lawyer Mellon Lethal. The
couple moved to Jackson, Mississippi in 1967, got married, and moved to New York
soon after. The marriage did not last long and ended in divorce a few years
later. Walker began his literary journey as a poet. His first collection of
poetry, Vance, was published in 1968, followed by six more titles. Walker wrote
books and articles on Southern writers. Walker coined the term
"feminist" to describe the identity of black women and worked from a
feminist perspective.
A collection of Walker's two stories, Love
and Trouble (1973) and You Kate Can Protect Good Woman Down (1981), and her
early novels, The Three Life of Grange Copland (1970) and Meridian (1976),
which raised awareness. What Civil rights movement in fiction. Originally from
African American history. Walker became famous for his 1982 novel The Color
Purple.
The novel is written in the dialect of rural African American women and is about how these women have dual race and gender characteristics. The novel won the Patterson Prize in 1985 and became a film.
Walker's later novels include The Temple of
My Familiar (1989), Juicy of Joy (1992), and The Smile of Light of My Father
(1998). Walker writes about the relationship between sex and spirituality in
the context of African, Asian, and Middle Eastern women. This situation gave a
new dimension to the issue of women's rights. Alice Walker currently lives in
California and is a permanent assistant.
A book containing his memoirs, Chicken
Chronicles were published in 2011. Referring to black women writers in the United
States, Walker said in a 1973 interview, "Black men writers, too, ignored
black women writers in the United States." There are two reasons why women
writers are not given more importance than black men. One reason is that they
are women.
Critics
consider it a waste of time to dedicate one's intelligence to one's work. She
never tried to find a way to write for a black woman. Men always oppress women
because of their dominance.
This article is about the life of Alice Walker who did not let the deprivation of
childhood become her weakness. These are the writers whose writings have had a
positive impact on public rights. This black writer is the name of constant
struggle. The way he has encouraged women is a great testament to their
potential.
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