Alice Walker behoort tot de meest vooraanstaande literaire stemmen van Amerika, en weeft verhalen die met een onderscheidende stijl de diepten van de menselijke ervaring verkennen. Haar werk confronteert dringende kwesties van onrecht, ongelijkheid en armoede, en onderzoekt de veerkracht van de menselijke geest door haar personages. Walkers schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door zijn poëtische gevoeligheid, diepe empathie en een onwrikbare toewijding om tegenspoed te overwinnen. Ze heeft niet alleen de Amerikaanse literatuur gevormd, maar is ook actief betrokken geweest als activist en publiek intellectueel, en heeft sociale verandering bepleit.
Een jonge zwarte vrouw uit het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten wordt zich, na een periode van vernederingen zonder verzet, met behulp van andere vrouwen bewust van eigen kracht en van haar recht op een eigen leven.
A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble , these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.
Een integere jonge zwarte vrouw in de jaren '60 in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten zoekt haar weg naar de rassenintegratie.
Verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur over levensbeschouwelijke thema's.
"The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringiong together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Isreali military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the the rest of the world."--Book flap
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to caretaking, household rituals, and death. These writings represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women-a vision that partakes of the world of earth and flesh.
From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a collection of Alice Walker's essays, memoirs, letters, poems and reflections, which offer an insight into her life and thinking.
The narrative centers on Elizabeth as she embarks on new adventures, discovering that feeling nervous is a shared experience. Through her journey, she learns to embrace her butterflies, finding comfort in the fact that her mother experiences them too. This heartwarming tale reassures readers that they are not alone in facing challenges and highlights the importance of support and understanding in overcoming fears.
In this collection of nonfiction, the author speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words
