Alice Walker

Alice Walker
Biografske informacije
RođenjeEatonton, Georgia
Obrazovanje
Zanimanjeromanopisac, novelistica, pjesnikinja
Opus
Književne vrsteAfroamerička književnost
Znamenita djela
The Color Purple
Inspiracija
Od
  • Howard Zinn, Zora Neale Hurston
Na
  • Gayl Jones

Alice Malsenior Walker (9.2. 1944.-) je američka spisateljica i feministica. Godine 1983. je za svoj hvaljeni roman The Color Purple dobila Pulitzerovu nagradu za fikciju.

Aktivizam

Alice Walker poznata je kao aktivistica za ljudska prava, prava životinja, feminizam, anticionizam, pacifizam, itd. Ranih 1960-ih kao student na fakultetu Spelman susretala se s M. L. Kingom, sudjelovala je u maršu na Washington 1963., te volontirala u registraciji crnih glasača u Georgiji i Mississippiju.[1][2] Dana 8. 3. 2003., na međunarodni dan žena, uhićena je zajedno sa 26 drugih aktivista zbog prosvjedovanja protiv vojne intervencije u Iraku. Nedugo kasnije u intervjuu je rekla kako smatra da su joj iračke žene i djeca jednako dragi kao žene i djeca vlastite porodice odnosno da zajedno predstavljaju jednu veliku obitelj, te da je stoga imala osjećaj da će zapravo bombardirati sami sebe.[3]

U januaru 2009. Walker je bila među 50 potpisnika peticije koji su na filmskom festivalu u Torontu osudili Izrael kao „apartheidski režim“.[4] U martu iste godine, zajedno sa 60 drugih ženskih aktivista iz antiratne organizacije Code Pink, putovala je u Pojas Gaze kao odgovor na nedavno završeni rat i angažirala se u nagovaranju Izraela i Egipta da otvore svoje granice prema blokiranom palestinskom području. Walker je u sličnim aktivističkim protestima sudjelovala i u decembru u Egiptu[5], a 23. 6. 2011. najavila je planove za priključenje flotili za Gazu čiji je cilj bio probijanje izraelske pomorske blokade i dostava humanitarne pomoći.[6][7]

Godine 2012. Walker je odbila dati dozvolu za hebrejski prijevod svoje knjige The Color Purple, s izlikom da Izrael „krši međunarodno pravo“ i „provodi apartheid[8]. Njena odluka dočekana je uz oštre kritike kod proizraelskih pojedinaca i organizacija – A. Dershowitz njena je stajališta opisao „bigotrijom“ uz dodatak da ima „dugu historiju podržavanja terorizma“ odnosno „moral ravan neonacistima[9], dok je direktor Antidifamacijske lige A. H. Foxman odluku opisao „tužnom, pristranom i zaslijepljenom protuizraelskim duhom“.[10] Foxman je oštro kritizirao i njenu drugu knjigu The Cushion in the Road zbog analogija Izraela i nacizma, optuživši pritom Walker za antisemitizam[11]. S druge strane, izraelska analitičarka i novinarka E. Goldberg odbacila je takve optužbe protiv Walker, kao argumente navodeći da je bila u braku s jevrejskim advokatom M. R. Leventhalom, da joj je kćer polujevrejka, da je na ekranizaciji knjige The Color Purple surađivala s jevrejskim režiserom S. Spielbergom, te da njeni pozivi na bojkot nisu usmjereni ni protiv Jevreja, ni protiv Izraela, već protiv izraelske vlade[12].

Odabrana djela

Romani i zbirke priča

  • The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
  • Everyday Use (1973)
  • In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
  • Meridian (roman) (1976)
  • The Color Purple (1982)
  • You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
  • Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (1983)
  • To Hell With Dying (1988)
  • The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
  • Finding the Green Stone (1991)
  • Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
  • The Complete Stories (1994)
  • By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
  • The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
  • Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005)

Zbirke poezije

  • Once (1968)
  • Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973)
  • Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
  • Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
  • Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
  • Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
  • A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
  • Collected Poems (2005)

Publicistika

  • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
  • Living by the Word (1988)
  • Warrior Marks (1993)
  • The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
  • Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
  • Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
  • Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
  • Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
  • Women
  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
  • Mississippi Winter IV

Knjige o Alice Walker

  • Alice Walker: A Life, Evelyn C. White, Norton, 2004

Reference

  1. Democracy Now - Walker Interview transcript and audio file on "Inner Light in A time of darkness". Retrieved 2010-02-10.
  2. Democracy Now video on the African American Vote. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
  3. "Global Women Launch Campaign to End Iraq War" (Press release). CodePink: Women for Peace. 2006-01-05. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2014-09-06. {{cite press release}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. Brown, Barry (5. 9. 2009.). „Toronto film festival ignites anti-Israel boycott”. The Washington Times. 
  5. „Gaza Freedom March”. Arhivirano iz originala na datum 2009-09-03. Pristupljeno 2014-09-06. 
  6. Harman, Danna (23. 6. 2011.). „Author Alice Walker to take part in Gaza flotilla, despite U.S. warning”. Haaretz (Tel Aviv). 
  7. Urquhart, Conal (26. 6. 2011.). „Israel accused of trying to intimidate Gaza flotilla journalists”. The Guardian (London). 
  8. Huff Post (19. 6. 2012.). „Alice Walker Refuses Israeli Publisher Permission To Translate 'The Color Purple'”. The Huffington Post (New York). 
  9. „Alice Walker’s bigotry”. Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem. 21. 6. 2012.. 
  10. „ADL: Alice Walker's Decision Not To Publish 'The Color Purple' In Hebrew Exposes Her Own Bias And Bigotry”. Anti-Defamation League. New York. 20. 6. 2012.. 
  11. „New Book from Alice Walker Contains ‘Shocking’ 80-Page Screed Against Israel & Jews”. Anti-Defamation League. New York. 18. 6. 2013.. 
  12. „Alice Walker Is Not An Anti-Semite”. The Daily Beast. 2. 7. 2012.. 

Vanjske veze

Alice Walker na Wikimedijinoj ostavi
  • The Sabanci University School of Languages Podcasts: The World in Alice Walker's Eye Arhivirano 2010-06-05 na Wayback Machine-u
  • Poem: A Mother's Day Plea Arhivirano 2007-03-10 na Wayback Machine-u
  • Living By Grace
  • Alice Walker on AALBC.com
  • New Georgia Encyclopedia Arhivirano 2013-07-24 na Wayback Machine-u
  • Interview with Alice Walker by ascent magazine Arhivirano 2011-08-31 na Wayback Machine-u
Video
  • "Alice Walker on the 'Toxic Culture' of Globalization" Arhivirano 2007-09-30 na Wayback Machine-u, from Democracy Now! program, October 27, 2004
  • "'I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan' - Author, Actress, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own Words" Arhivirano 2007-11-14 na Wayback Machine-u, interview from Democracy Now! program, February 13, 2006
  • "Alice Walker in Black and White"
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1918–1925
1926–1950
  • Arrowsmith; autor: Sinclair Lewis (odbio) (1926)
  • Early Autumn; autor: Louis Bromfield (1927)
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey; autor: Thornton Wilder (1928)
  • Scarlet Sister Mary; autor: Julia Peterkin (1929)
  • Laughing Boy; autor: Oliver La Farge (1930)
  • Years of Grace; autor: Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931)
  • The Good Earth; autor: Pearl S. Buck (1932)
  • The Store; autor: Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933)
  • Lamb in His Bosom; autor: Caroline Pafford Miller (1934)
  • Now in November; autor: Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935)
  • Honey in the Horn; autor: Harold L. Davis (1936)
  • Gone with the Wind; autor: Margaret Mitchell (1937)
  • The Late George Apley; autor: John Phillips Marquand (1938)
  • The Yearling; autor: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)
  • The Grapes of Wrath; autor: John Steinbeck (1940)
  • In This Our Life; autor: Ellen Glasgow (1942)
  • Dragon's Teeth; autor: Upton Sinclair (1943)
  • Journey in the Dark; autor: Martin Flavin (1944)
  • A Bell for Adano; autor: John Hersey (1945)
  • All the King's Men; autor: Robert Penn Warren (1947)
  • Tales of the South Pacific; autor: James A. Michener (1948)
  • Guard of Honor; autor: James Gould Cozzens (1949)
  • The Way West; autor: A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1950)
1951–1975
  • The Town; autor: Conrad Richter (1951)
  • The Caine Mutiny; autor: Herman Wouk (1952)
  • The Old Man and the Sea; autor: Ernest Hemingway (1953)
  • A Fable; autor: William Faulkner (1955)
  • Andersonville; autor: MacKinlay Kantor (1956)
  • A Death in the Family; autor: James Agee (1958)
  • The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters; autor: Robert Lewis Taylor (1959)
  • Advise and Consent; autor: Allen Drury (1960)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird; autor: Harper Lee (1961)
  • The Edge of Sadness; autor: Edwin O'Connor (1962)
  • The Reivers; autor: William Faulkner (1963)
  • The Keepers of the House; autor: Shirley Ann Grau (1965)
  • The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter; autor: Katherine Anne Porter (1966)
  • The Fixer; autor: Bernard Malamud (1967)
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner; autor: William Styron (1968)
  • House Made of Dawn; autor: N. Scott Momaday (1969)
  • The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford; autor: Jean Stafford (1970)
  • Angle of Repose; autor: Wallace Stegner (1972)
  • The Optimist's Daughter; autor: Eudora Welty (1973)
  • The Killer Angels; autor: Michael Shaara (1975)
1976–2000
  • Humboldt's Gift; autor: Saul Bellow (1976)
  • Elbow Room; autor: James Alan McPherson (1978)
  • The Stories of John Cheever; autor: John Cheever (1979)
  • The Executioner's Song; autor: Norman Mailer (1980)
  • A Confederacy of Dunces; autor: John Kennedy Toole (1981)
  • Rabbit Is Rich; autor: John Updike (1982)
  • The Color Purple; autor: Alice Walker (1983)
  • Ironweed; autor: William Kennedy (1984)
  • Foreign Affairs; autor: Alison Lurie (1985)
  • Lonesome Dove; autor: Larry McMurtry (1986)
  • A Summons to Memphis; autor: Peter Taylor (1987)
  • Beloved; autor: Toni Morrison (1988)
  • Breathing Lessons; autor: Anne Tyler (1989)
  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love; autor: Oscar Hijuelos (1990)
  • Rabbit at Rest; autor: John Updike (1991)
  • A Thousand Acres; autor: Jane Smiley (1992)
  • A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain; autor: Robert Olen Butler (1993)
  • The Shipping News; autor: E. Annie Proulx (1994)
  • The Stone Diaries; autor: Carol Shields (1995)
  • Independence Day; autor: Richard Ford (1996)
  • Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer; autor: Steven Millhauser (1997)
  • American Pastoral; autor: Philip Roth (1998)
  • The Hours; autor: Michael Cunningham (1999)
  • Interpreter of Maladies; autor: Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
2001–2025
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; autor: Michael Chabon (2001)
  • Empire Falls; autor: Richard Russo (2002)
  • Middlesex; autor: Jeffrey Eugenides (2003)
  • The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004)
  • Gilead; autor: Marilynne Robinson (2005)
  • March; autor: Geraldine Brooks (2006)
  • The Road; autor: Cormac McCarthy (2007)
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; autor: Junot Díaz (2008)
  • Olive Kitteridge; autor: Elizabeth Strout (2009)
  • Tinkers; autor: Paul Harding (2010)
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad; autor: Jennifer Egan (2011)
  • nije dodijeljena (2012)
  • The Orphan Master's Son; autor: Adam Johnson (2013)
  • The Goldfinch; autor: Donna Tartt (2014)
  • All the Light We Cannot See; autor: Anthony Doerr (2015)
  • The Sympathizer; autor: Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016)
  • The Underground Railroad; autor: Colson Whitehead (2017)
  • Less; autor: Andrew Sean Greer (2018)
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