In search of the color purple : the story of an American masterpiece
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New York : Abrams Press, [2021].
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xvii, 205 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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New York : Abrams Press, [2021].
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Book - Regular Print
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.
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Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple. Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the first 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 Walker's epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced 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 αlm and a hit Broadway musical. Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker's 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 her--as 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 Walker's seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics. -- Provided by publisher
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Tillet's cultural criticism blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Tillet, S. (2021). In search of the color purple: the story of an American masterpiece . Abrams Press.

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Tillet, Salamishah. 2021. In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece. Abrams Press.

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Tillet, Salamishah. In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece Abrams Press, 2021.

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Tillet, Salamishah. In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece Abrams Press, 2021.

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