Meridian
novel by Walker
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African American literature
- In African American literature: Alice Walker
…/ Be an outcast”; and Meridian (1976), a novelistic redefinition of African American motherhood. In 1982 Walker’s most famous novel, The Color Purple, an epistolary novel that depicted rape, incest, bisexuality, and lesbian love among African Americans, won the Pulitzer Prize and the
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discussed in biography
- In Alice Walker: First writings
magazine, Walker completed Meridian (1976), a novel describing the coming of age of several civil rights workers in the 1960s. In 1981 she published the short-story collection You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down. It includes “Nineteen Fifty-five,” which addresses the exploitation of Black music by white musicians…
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