Alice Walker
Description
Being black, being a woman, and being a writer is just the most wonderful challenge. It's like having three eyes, three hearts, rather than one, says the author of The Color Purple in this profile, as she relives her journey from an impoverished childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present life in northern California. Alice Walker describes how the Civil Rights movement transformed her life, defines her concept of "womanism," and explains her recurrent theme of a woman's recovery of wholeness through resistance to racism and sexism.
Runtime
33 min
Subjects
- Feminist art criticism (31)
- Civil rights (308)
- American literature (423)
- Women in art (43)
- Women artists (55)
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Genre
Date of Publication
[2008], c1992
Database
Films on Demand
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