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In Search of the Color Purple

by Salamishah Tillet
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Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walkerâs critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple
 
Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the �rst black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence.
 
Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walkerâs epistolary novel and shows how it has inï¬âuenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated ï¬?lm and a hit Broadway musical.
 
Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walkerâs life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with herâas a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic.
 
Provocative and personal, In Search of The Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walkerâs seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics.

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Series: Books About Books Publisher: ABRAMS

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  • Release date: January 12, 2021

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  • ISBN: 9781683356851
  • Release date: January 12, 2021

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Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Nonfiction

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Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walkerâs critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple
 
Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the �rst black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence.
 
Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walkerâs epistolary novel and shows how it has inï¬âuenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated ï¬?lm and a hit Broadway musical.
 
Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walkerâs life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with herâas a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic.
 
Provocative and personal, In Search of The Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walkerâs seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics.

Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Nonfiction