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Alice Walker


Modern Critical Views

No. of pages 223

Published: 2007

Great for age 12-18 years

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A champion for African-American and women's rights, Alice Walker reflects her beliefs in her passionate writing. Walker is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, ""The Color Purple"", a compelling work that boldly tackles the issues of racism and sexism in the rural South. ""Alice Walker, New Edition"" features a penetrating introduction by Harold Bloom that helps set the stage for this comprehensive critical portrait of one of the most influential writers of the last 30 years. A useful chronology and a concise bibliography further enhance this updated literary resource, which is perfect for student research.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Modern Critical Views .

There are 223 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2007 by Chelsea House Publishers .

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.

 

This book is in the following series:

Modern Critical Views

This book features the following character:

Alice Walker
This book features the character Alice Walker.

"An excellent and balanced discussion..."

 

"The accounts offer students an opportunity to absorb serious analytical styles."

 

.,."excellent critical guide sets edited by Harold Bloom...recommended picks for audiences of young adults studying literature."

 

"A publishing venture almost without precedent both in its scope and in the fact that it is guided by a single critical intelligence."

 

"This collection of previously published essays, edited by the distinguished literary scholar Harold Bloom, is an excellent addition to the Wells critical canon."

 

"Harold Bloom adds some fantastic critical literary guides, providing interpretations and issues that should reach a wide audience from adults to young adults at the high school and college levels."