Bøger af Alice Walker

The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name.

"Glædens hemmelighed" er historien om Tashi, en afrikansk kvinde, der også optræder i to af Alice Walkers tidligere bøger, "Farven lilla" og "Åndetemplet". Som ung kvinde vælger hun at følge traditionen og lade sig omskære, som det er almindeligt i visse afrikanske lande.Hele resten af sit liv bruger Tashi på at komme overens med resultatet af den beslutning. Hun bliver behandlet i psykoterapi, bl.a. af C.G. Jung, men det er først, da hun får en uventet forbundsfælle, at hun for alvor begynder at finde tilbage til sig selv.Den amerikanske forfatter og aktivist Alice Walker (f. 1944) er født i sydstaten Georgia og har blandt andet arbejdet som medredaktør af magasinet "Ms" og af det afroamerikanske tidsskrift "Freedomways". I 1982 vandt hun en Pulitzer Prize og National Book Award for sin mest kendte roman "Farven lilla". Alice Walkers bøger er blevet solgt i store oplag verden over, og hun er bredt anerkendt for sit virke i kampen for afroamerikaneres rettigheder."Dette er en bemærkelsesværdig roman. Det er lykkedes Alice Walker at skrive en stærk roman om et brutalt emne, og hun har gjort den både skræmmende og læseværdig, vred og varmhjertet, politisk og menneskelig. En sjældenhed."– Newsweek

Fanny kan ligesom sin bedstemor, Celie, tale direkte med ånder. Fannys tidligere mand, Suwelo, universitetslærer i historie, tilhører en generation, som først irriteres over selvstændige begavede kvinder, men senere lærer at værdsætte dem. Forbindelsen til et andet par, rocksangeren Arveyda og Suwelos kollega Carlotta, kommer til at spille en stor rolle for romanens udvikling.Men det er især Miss Lissie, som sammen med sin mand, Mr. Hal, gør "Åndetemplet" til en saga om sort og hvid, mand og kvinde, gennem de sidste 500.000 år.Drømme, tanker, katastrofer og sagn væver sammen et historisk-mytisk billedtæppe om altings samhørighed og vanskeligheden ved at leve som sig selv og i overensstemmelse med sin samvittighed og vilje.Alice Walker har ligesom Martin Luther King ‘en drøm‘ – en vision om et samfund, hvor alle kan udfolde sig frit uanset hudfarve, køn og politiske anskuelser.Den amerikanske forfatter og aktivist Alice Walker (f. 1944) er født i sydstaten Georgia og har blandt andet arbejdet som medredaktør af magasinet "Ms" og af det afroamerikanske tidsskrift "Freedomways". I 1982 vandt hun en Pulitzer Prize og National Book Award for sin mest kendte roman "Farven lilla". Alice Walkers bøger er blevet solgt i store oplag verden over, og hun er bredt anerkendt for sit virke i kampen for afroamerikaneres rettigheder.

Meridian Hill vokser op i Sydstaterne – i en verden af racisme, fattigdom og social elendighed. Som syttenårig er hun forladt, bange og alenemor og omtrent lige så uvidende som sit lille barn. Hendes syn på tilværelsen er begrænset af hendes egne få og barske erfaringer. Meridians fremtid virker forbi, inden den overhovedet er kommet i gang.Det hele forandrer sig, da hun en dag begynder at hjælpe til i den lokale borgerrettighedsbevægelse for at se, hvad slags mennesker de egentlig er. Det kommer til at ændre hendes liv.Den amerikanske forfatter og aktivist Alice Walker (f. 1944) er født i sydstaten Georgia og har blandt andet arbejdet som medredaktør af magasinet "Ms" og af det afroamerikanske tidsskrift "Freedomways". I 1982 vandt hun en Pulitzer Prize og National Book Award for sin mest kendte roman "Farven lilla". Alice Walkers bøger er blevet solgt i store oplag verden over, og hun er bredt anerkendt for sit virke i kampen for afroamerikaneres rettigheder.

"Hans tredje liv" er historien om Grange Copeland, en sort landarbejder i Georgia. Drevet af meningsløsheden i sit fattige liv i Sydstaterne forlader han kone og børn og rejser nordpå. Men der bliver hans liv lige så fyldt med ydmygelse og fornedrelse.Mange år senere vender han tilbage til Georgia og opdager, at hans søn sidder i fængsel for hustruvold.Grange må tage sig af sit barnebarn – sønnens yngste datter – og dermed begynder hans tredje liv, og han får en mulighed for at befri sig fra "slaveriet" i alle dets former.Den amerikanske forfatter og aktivist Alice Walker (f. 1944) er født i sydstaten Georgia og har blandt andet arbejdet som medredaktør af magasinet "Ms" og af det afroamerikanske tidsskrift "Freedomways". I 1982 vandt hun en Pulitzer Prize og National Book Award for sin mest kendte roman "Farven lilla". Alice Walkers bøger er blevet solgt i store oplag verden over, og hun er bredt anerkendt for sit virke i kampen for afroamerikaneres rettigheder.

Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.

Introduction by Patricia Holt Throughout her distinguished career, Alice Walker's work has been at the center of controversies around language, censorship, truth and art. Alice Walker Banned explores just what it is that various groups have found so threatening in Walker's work, bringing together the short stories "Roselily" and "Am I Blue?," an excerpt from the novel The Color Purple, as well as testimonies, letters, and essays about attempts to censor Walker's work by the California State Board of Education. The introduction by San Francisco Chronicle Book Review editor Patricia Holt offers insightful and ironic commentary on the efforts of the Traditional Values Coalition to pressure the State Board of Education into withdrawing Walker's stories from a statewide exam, while excerpts from a Board of Education hearing offer views from across the political spectrum on these efforts to censor Walker's work. a fascinating, frightening book Mirabella an invaluable contribution to the literature of censorship Booklist this book will allow a cooler, more informed discussion of an important debate. Library Journal"

"Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker's first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and writes vividly and courageously about a scarring childhood injury. Throughout, Walker explores the theories and practices of feminism, incorporating what she calls the 'womanist' tradition of Black women -- insights that are vital to understanding our lives and society today."--

In this ?brilliant? (Essence) sequel to The Color Purple, Alice Walker weaves an intricate, rich tapestry of interrelated lives. Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of the dozens of astonishing characters in The Temple of My Familiar, all of whom are dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America to Celie's own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, they must come to terms with the brutal stories of their ancestors in order to confront their own troubled lives.Described by the author as ?a romance of the last 500,000 years,? The Temple of My Familiar creates a new mythology from old fables and history, and along with it a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African American experience. ?The richness of [this] novel is amazing, overwhelming. A hundred themes and subjects spin through it, dozens of characters, a whirl of time and places. None is touched superficially: all the people are passionate actors and sufferers, and everything they talk about is urgent, a matter truly of life and death. They're like Dostoyevsky's characters, relentlessly raising the great moral questions and pushing one another towards self-knowledge, honesty, engagement.? ?Ursula K. LeGuin

"Meridian Hill, a dedicated and courageous young activist in the 1960s, works to create peace and understanding through her civil rights work, touching the lives of all those she meets even when her health begins to deteriorate. With the old rules of Southern society collapsing around her, her coworkers quitting and moving to comfortable homes and lives, and others turning to more violent means of achieving change, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity-and that of all her people"--

* WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work * Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)—crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving.Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she's urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans.

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read.Un clásico del feminismo y la lucha contra el racismo del siglo XX.Esta es la historia de dos hermanas: Nettie, que ejerce como misionera en África, y Celie, que vive en el Sur de Estados Unidos, casada con un hombre al que odia y abrumada por la vergüenza de haber sido violada por quien cree que es su padre. A lo largo de treinta años ambas mantienen el recuerdo y la esperanza de reencontrarse y vuelcan sus sentimientos en unas cartas conmovedoras. Pero la dramática existencia de Celie cambiará cuando entre en su vida la amante de su marido, una extraordinaria mujer llama Shug Avery.Alice Walker traza en esta ya clásica historia, narrada en formato epistolar, un crudo y sin embargo bello relato del abuso hacia las mujeres y la comunidad afroamericana en los Estados Unidos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. El relato de ambas hermanas, merecedor del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Award en 1983, se convierte en símbolo de una lucha que aún a día de hoy no hemos acabado de librar.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God. The letters, spanning twenty years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women. She meets Shug Avery, her husband's mistress and a jazz singer with a zest for life, and her stepson's wife, Sophia, who challenges her to fight for independence. And though the many letters from Celie's sister are hidden by her husband, Nettie's unwavering support will prove to be the most breathtaking of all. The Color Purple has sold more than five million copies, inspired an Academy Award-nominated film starring Oprah Winfrey and directed by Steven Spielberg, and been adapted into a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Lauded as a literary masterpiece, this is the groundbreaking novel that placed Walker "in the company of Faulkner" (The Nation), and remains a wrenching-yet intensely uplifting-experience for new generations of readers.

Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

Though War is OldIt has notBecome wise.Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem.Stefano Vitale's compelling paintings illustrate this unflinching look at war's destructive nature and unforeseen consequences.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman's spiritual adventure that becomes a passage through time, a quest for self, and a collision with love. Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love. Told with the accessible style and deep feeling that are its author's hallmarks, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is Alice Walker's most surprising achievement.

Vivid poems of ?breakdown and spiritual disarray.? Writing these, Walker says, ?led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world.? What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of growth.

A provocative novel about an African tribal woman's battle with madness after the trauma of a childhood genital mutilation.