{"product_id":"understanding-alice-walker-thadious-m-davis-9781643362380","title":"Understanding Alice Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Alice Walker\u003c\/i\u003e serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifaceted canon. Thadious M. Davis begins with Walker's biography and her formative experiences in the South and then presents ways of accessing and reading Walker's complex, interconnected, and sociopolitically invested career in writing fiction, poetry, critical essays, and meditations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough best known for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e and her landmark essays\u003ci\u003e In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose\u003c\/i\u003e, Walker began her career with\u003ci\u003e Once: Poems, The Third Life of Grange Copeland\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women\u003c\/i\u003e. She has remained committed not merely to writing in multiple genres but also to conveying narratives of the hope and transformation possible within the human condition and as visualized through the lens of race and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavis traces Walker's literary voice as it emerges from the civil rights and feminist movements to encourage an individual and collective search for justice and joy and then evolves into forceful advocacy for world peace, spiritual liberation, and environmental conservancy. Her writing, a rich amalgamation of the cutting-edge and popular, the new-age and difficult, continues to be paradigm shifting and among the most important produced in the last half of the twentieth century and among the most consistently prophetic in the first part of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thadious M. Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643362380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643362380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2022","brand":"Thadious M. Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046874738943,"sku":"9781643362380","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d6d91826-a86c-4dc3-9772-096b1c8dad4a.jpg?v=1684986985","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understanding-alice-walker-thadious-m-davis-9781643362380","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}