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In 1982, Walker won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. An epistolary novel (a book written in the form of letters), The Color Purple tells the story of Celie, a young woman who is sexually abused by her stepfather and then is forced to marry a man who physically abuses her.
This tradition continues today with authors who have been accepted as an integral part of American literature, with works such as Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Beloved by Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison, and fiction works by Octavia Butler and Walter Mosley. Such works have achieved ...
Adichie was born on 15 September 1977, and raised in Enugu, as the fifth out of six children to Igbo parents. [1] [2] [3] Bearing Amanda as her English name, [4] [5] she made up the Igbo name "Chimamanda" in the 1990s to keep her legal English name and conform with Igbo Christian naming customs.
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1982) "The Importance of Women's Paid Labour: Women at Work in World War II", Lynn Beaton (1982) [518] Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde (1982) Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers, Dale Spender, ed. (1983)
—Margaret Mitchell Mammy: is Scarlett's nurse. A slave, she originally was owned by Scarlett's grandmother and raised her mother, Ellen O'Hara. Mammy is "head woman of the plantation". Pork: is Gerald O'Hara's valet and his first slave. He won Pork in a game of poker (as he did the plantation Tara, in a separate poker game). When Gerald died, Scarlett gave his pocket watch to Pork. She ...
Nadir of Americanrace relations. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American. [1] The last of the Jim Crow laws were overturned in 1965. [2]
The areas marked in purple are where the merger is complete for most speakers. Based on Labov , Ash, and Boberg 2006: 68. Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern states of the United States, from West Virginia and Kentucky to the Gulf Coast , and from the mid-Atlantic coast to ...
The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths [a] [T 1] and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay, who became a fantasy author.