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These arrived yesterday!

I'm hoping to read (some of) the books mentioned in Barbara Boswell's study of Black South African women's writing.

And one of Walker's essays (about searching for artist biographies) is mentioned in Jane Austen's Bookshelf.
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An in-depth look at the making of the movie version of The Color Purple, rather than the author memoir I was expecting. I enjoyed this look into Walker‘s psyche. I confess I never saw the movie (we were young and poor in the late 80s and didn‘t go out much) but 👇🏻

Meridian is a young, black woman who joins the civil rights movement of the 1960‘s in the American South. Walker captures racism, sexism, illness, suffering and poverty in this heartbreaking, beautifully written novel. I thought this was really powerful and historically important.

These collection of stories are about Black womanhood, touching on various topics like sexuality, lust, abortion, porn, rape, race, and many others. They‘re insightful however I‘m somewhat disappointed. A handful of them stood out for me - Nineteen Fifty-Five, The Lover, The Abortion, and Laurel; the others weren‘t so impressive.
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I vaguely remember reading this back in the last century 😄

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Brilliant collection that gives the reader an intimate gaze into the wonderful Alice Walker!

This was more scandalous and salacious than I was expecting. I was curious to read about Rebecca Walker‘s upbringing as a child of mixed race and cultures but what I read was a story of neglectful parenting, numerous sexual escapades and unrecognized privilege. It was a compelling read but I would have like to learn more about her navigating chilhood. Now I‘m very eager to read Alice Walker‘s memoir. I wonder how she‘ll cover these same years.

This one was winking at me yesterday. It‘s pretty interesting. Rebecca Walker is the daughter of Alice Walker, who was married to a Jewish man in the late 1960‘s. Im curious to read Alice Walker‘s new memoir after this.