Opening with her initial novel, 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland', Walker has all ears on a medium, which includes sexual and tribal truths within black communities as well as the inescapable relations between family and civilization.
Alice Walker
Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, to sharecropper parents, Alice Walker has become one of the best-known and most highly respected writers in the U.S. Educated at Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College, Walker, in a commencement speech at Sarah Lawrence years later, spoke out against the silence of that institution's curriculum when it came to African-American culture and history. Vigorous in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, she utilized her own and others' incidents as substance for her intense inspection of politics and black-white associations in her novel Meridian. (Winchell, 20-27)
Opening with her initial novel, “The Third Life of Grange Copeland”, Walker has all ears on a medium, which includes sexual and tribal truths within black communities as well as the inescapable relations between family and civilization. For revealing the former, some African-American male reviewers have condemned her; for discovering the latter, she has been awarded many prizes while captivating the hearts and minds of innumerable black and white bookworms. Possibly her most well-known work is “The Color Purple”, brought to the notice of conventional America through the film version by Steven Spielberg. In that novel of sibling attachment, incest and lesbian love, Walker also brings in blues music as a combined thread in the lives of many of the characters. (Winchell, 20-27)
In The Color Purple, Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the blues singer Shug is the sassy, sensual, bounteous woman who awakens the brutalized and silenced Celie to her own strength and sexuality. With loving song and tender touch, she opens Celie to her own loveliness and possibility and reveals a God who is not the "big and old and tall and gray bearded and white" stern codger of Celie's old-time religion but, instead, an expansive God of trees, air, birds, people -- an erotic God who "love all their feelings," who "love everything you love," and "love admiration. . . . just wanting to share a good thing."
With her story, "Everyday Use," Alice Walker is saying that art should be a living, breathing part of the culture. To make this point, she uses the quilts in her story to symbolize art; and what happens to these quilts represents her theory of art. (Christian, 25-28) Everyday Use”, is written in the African-American tradition. Walker has used quilts in the story to symbolize art, to represent the history of family and their culture. The quilts were sewn of cloth pieces of their ancestors. The main characters of the story are mother and her two daughters Maggie and Dee. Both sisters have separate approaches to the family legacy and their evaluation of art is different. For Maggie, the family heritage was important for emotional and personal reasons whereas Dee weighed these things in monetary and financial terms. The mother, a middle-aged black woman always praises and overrates her elder daughter Dee over Maggie, the younger one. The history of these quilts is a history of the family. (Christian, 25-28)
Walker adds “I learn that the writer's pen is a microphone, held up to the mouth of ancestors and even stones of long ago”. (Christian, 25-28)
Works Cited
Christian, Barbara “Everyday Use. Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present”. New York: Amistad, (1993) p.25-28
Winchell, Donna Haisty. “Alice Walker”. New York: Twayne, (1992) p. 20-27
她最初的小说“第三生活田庄科普兰”开幕，沃克在介质上的黑人社区内以及不可避免的家庭和文明之间的关系，其中包括性和部落的真理，所有的耳朵。
艾丽斯·沃克
艾丽斯·沃克出生于1944年乔治亚州Eatonton中，佃农的父母，已成为教育Spelman学院和萨拉劳伦斯学院，沃克在美国最知名和最受尊敬的作家之一，在毕业典礼上的演讲萨拉劳伦斯岁以后出言反对，该机构的课程，当它来到非裔美国人的文化和历史的沉默。在20世纪60年代民权运动轰轰烈烈，她利用自己的和他人的事件，因为她激烈检查政治和黑白协会在她的小说经络的物质。 （温切尔20-27）
打开与她初步小说， “田庄科普兰的第三次生命” ，行者有耳朵的媒体上，在黑人社区内以及不可避免的家庭和文明之间的关系，其中包括性和部落的真理。对于揭示了前者，一些非洲裔男性的评论纷纷谴责她发现了后者，她已经获得许多奖项而迷人的芳心无数的黑色和白色的书呆子。可能是她最知名的作品是“紫色”，通过由史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格的电影版带到美国常规的通知。在，兄弟附件，乱伦和同性恋爱的小说，沃克合并线程在许多人物的生活也带来了蓝调音乐。 （温切尔20-27）
紫色，艾丽斯·沃克的普利策奖获奖小说，蓝调歌手沙戈是时髦的，感性的，宽裕的女人谁唤醒了自己的力量和性摧残和压制西丽。爱歌曲和招标触摸，她打开西丽她自己的魅力和可能性，并揭示谁是不是“大和老和高大和灰色大胡子和白色的”严厉的怪人塞利耶旧时代的宗教神，而不是，一个广阔神树，空气，鸟，人 - 色情神“爱自己的感情， ”谁“爱你所爱的一切”和“爱钦佩......只是想分享一件好事。 ”
随着她的故事， “日常使用， ”艾丽斯·沃克说，艺术应该是一个活生生的文化的一部分。为了使这一点，她用被子在她的故事中的象征艺术，以及会发生什么这些棉被，代表了她的艺术理论。 （基督教， 25-28）日常使用“ ，是写在非裔美国人的传统。沃克已经用棉被故事中的象征艺术，代表家庭和他们的文化历史。缝制的棉被，布片，他们的祖先。故事的主角是母亲和她的两个女儿玛吉和迪伊。姐妹俩有不同的方法，家族的优良传统和他们的艺术的评价是不同的。对于张曼玉，重要的是家族传承迪伊称重情感和个人的原因，而这些东西在货币和金融方面。母亲，一个中年黑人妇女总是称赞高估了她的大女儿迪伊过张曼玉，年轻的一个。这些棉被的历史是家族的历史。 （基督教， 25-28）
沃克补充说： “我得知作家的笔下是一个麦克风，举起口的祖先，甚至是很久以前的石头” 。 （基督教， 25-28）
引用
基督教，芭芭拉“日常使用。艾丽斯·沃克：批判的观点过去和现在“ 。纽约：勇者无惧， （ 1993年）第25页28
温切尔， Donna Haisty的。 “艾丽斯·沃克” 。纽约： Twayne ，（1992） 。 20-27
