Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944, as the last child, eight people of Deep South, Willy Lee and Minnie Ru Tarula Grant Walker in Eatonton, Georgia.
Alice Walker knew the poverty and racial discrimination very well as a check. According to her testimony, racial discrimination has been well known to her since her birth.
When I was born in 1944, my parents lived in the middle farm of Georgia State owned by Miss · Mee, a white, distant relative ... (In my childhood, 12 years old ) She will not admit this relationship other than ridiculing it, of course. My parents said that some of the children did not eat chicken skin, but she did not answer. My father asked for a donation from 10 to 12 dollars a month. Mistakes in May say that they will not pay that amount, and she will certainly not pay it (to the black). Before she pays (he) ... amount enough to squeeze cow milk
Her mother, who made all her work at home working with Alice and her 7 brothers, was known for the incredible gardens she grew up. "A woman searching for grandmother's garden" later in her classic essay. "Walker passed through her how women in the south were always artists, even if that word did not apply I recognized it.
In this small rural town in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker 's parents are storytellers, and Walker is particularly affected by his mother Our mother & # 39; garden As "the history of our community's history", all the ingredients were able to cast her at the beginning of her as a writer. Throughout history she has continued to admire the maintenance of essential spirituality and creativity in life, and for its success as a source of inspiration to others, for the women's struggle throughout history.
Into Our mother's garden, Mr. Walker wrote as follows. "We must not look for creativity living in our lives without seeing fear and see that our great-grandmother can not seem to know, recognize what happened with the songs in the church Even if they did not, they knew the reality of their spirituality - and they had no intention of giving up on it. "
Just like the mother's artistic just like this, Walker learned that the experience and art of African-American women are based on spirituality, particularly related to nature.
The early-minded spirit that made Walker's personality stand out during her early years disappeared at the age of 8, when one of his older brothers mistakenly hurt and blindly blinded his right eye with a BB gun while playing a cowboy and an Indian It was.
Wandered by her classmates and misunderstood by her family, he became a shy and lonely young man. However, after the doctor removed the scar tissue 6 years later, much of her pain decreased.
Even though the disease was partially corrected, she had a big impact. Even when she eventually became a high school Prom Queen and class attorney, she continued to feel like an outsider. She retreats to loneliness and has developed a passion to read and write poetry in solitude. From this time, from a lonely and lonely outing attitude, she actually started seeing people and things, realizing relationships and learning to persevere as to how they care . She is a note of emotion.
The experience of being different may be accountable in the sense of her willingness to pursue the "forbidden" subject in her writing.
Walker commented that he is benefiting from a "double vision" as a southern black man raised in a poor rural village. "not only, [black southern writer] In a position to see his own world and its close community ... but he can know people constituting the bigger world surrounding and repressing himself with very quiet precision. "
Having accomplished being a lawyer in her class coupled with state 'rehabilitation scholarship', she was able to go to Spellingman, a famous university for black women in Atlanta, Georgia.
For two years at Spelman, she participated in the civil rights movement, participated in a civil rights movement gathering, a round-table talk, and a free march. She said that she broke the pattern of black slavery in this country. These experiences include her short stories, essays, and her second novel Meridian .
She then moved to Sarah Lawrence University in the Bronx in New York, where she continued her research and was involved in civil rights. She traveled to Africa.
In 1962 I admitted that I participated in Finland's youth world peace festival and I was invited to Martin Luther King · Jr.'s house
Alice Walker volunteered in the Georgia state voter registration movement in the 1960s, during which he registered black voters in Liberty County, Georgia. She was also involved in the Mississippi State Welfare and Children's Program campaign. She later worked as a case investigator at the New York City Welfare Bureau. Her experience here influenced her story "progressing Luna". "
At Sarah Lawrence University Walker got pregnant when abortion was illegal. When she decides to commit suicide due to the shame she brings to her family and the sense of helpless that she felt, she noticed having a baby and put her insecurity, fears and protests in writing. She soon published her first book one time A travel to Africa as a poetry containing poetry based on experience during the civil rights movement and her elementary school exchange student written while she was a senior in Sarah Lawrence. Walker, in the winter of 1965, was fighting suitcases, so I wrote many poems in a week. She was published in the same year she graduated.
Under the influence of Japanese haiku and French writer Albert Camus philosophy, one time Meditation on love and suicide is also included. Walker publicly tells what she is writing about mental and physical suffering experienced with abortion and suicide. Poetry grows not only from the sad time she was thinking about death, but also from the decision of victory to regain her life. They count desperation and isolation of her situation, in addition to her experience in the civil rights movement and the experience of the trip she went to Africa. Although it has not been widely reviewed, one time Marked the debut of Walker as a unique and talented writer. Carolyn M. Rogers Negro Digest Walker's "exact words, subtitles, unexpected twists and turns" [and] Change of emotion " one time, Walker showed "unshakable honesty in evoking what is forbidden in political circumstances and love," which is characteristic of her future poetry and fiction. (Christian)
She got a BS in art from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965 and then lived in New York for a short time. After that, from the mid-1960s until the mid-1970s she lived in Tugaloo, Mississippi.
Walker married White Citizen Attorney Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal two years after acquiring this degree from Sarah Lawrence. They lived in Jackson, Mississippi. In Mississippi state, Walker worked as a black history consultant of the head start program when interracial marriage working together to alienate school there was illegal.
She also worked as a resident of Jackson State College's Journal State College and later Jackson State University and Tegalog College were born.
Walker completed her first novel with the help of McDowell Fellowship in 1967, The third life of Grange · Copeland In the same year, his daughter Rebecca Grant was born in 1969 and was published in 1970.
This novel describes the cycle of male violence in the poor southern black household (Copelands) of three generations, the interest in social conditions affecting the family relations of Walker, and the theme of the repeated theme of black women suffering hands. Father (Grunge) abandons abused wife and young son (Brownfield), lives a richer life in the north, and finds a son who abuses his family merely a few years later. A novel man says, "What society drew for the control of life - the definition of an American man - [and] I will dispel their dissatisfaction by inflicting my wife violence. "
Critics praised the realism of the novel. Peter Erickson, who pointed out to Mr. Walker, has demonstrated that "I feel vividly that I have fallen into a vicious circle of poverty."
Walker was also criticized for her portrayal of black men to be often violent. I answered in an interview with Claudia Tate at 'Black female writer'. "I know many brown fields, I will not ignore people like Brownfield, I want them to know that they exist, I would like to tell you about them. There is no way to avoid them.
Through such work published in the 1970's, Walker had a decisive influence on literary circles. The voice of an African-American woman helped explicitly emerge the creative and critical expression of African-American women. In particular, we explored the cruelty of families, as caused by social forces such as racial discrimination, unemployment, sex discrimination. She challenged African-American culture nationalist in the 1960s. Ideally the "black man's" idealization and female repression are rarely accepted.
After registering voters at the Georgia State University, Walker, who came back to the south, worked as a leader in the black history of Mississippi, inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message. Our mother & # 39; garden, That means that it is black in the south "I ... insisted on the land of my birth.
When the marriage to Leventhal ended in 1977, Walker moved to the northern part of California. Here she lives today.
Walker wrote poetry and fiction and kept exploring the south where she came. she is Our mother & # 39; garden Specifically, I am influenced by Russian writers. Russian writers talked to her, "Soul rooted directly in soil that gave nutrition". She was influenced by a black writer, Zora Neil Hurston, who wrote a lively folk account of the prosperous prosperous southern black society. Our mother & # 39; garden She mentioned how concretely he claims "racial health" of Hurston's work: "Complete and complex, Never fail Humans are lacking in very black sentences and literature.
Walker 's appreciation for the history of her maternal literature is evidenced by the numerous reviews and articles she published to inform writers and new generation readers like Zora Neale Hurston. The anthology she edited, When I am laughing I love myself ... And when I am looking at the average and impressive things: Zora Neale Hurston's readers (1979) was particularly helpful in returning Hurston's work to print. Poems Good night Willie Lee (1979), she explained her search in Harston. She began to put a tombstone on her unmarked tomb. This is an important symbolic moment in rebuilding the tradition of black women and her most important contribution to literary history - the rescue of her southern maternal ancestry.
The literary influence of Walker extends to Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer, Chicago's Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks, South African novelist Bessie Head, and White Georgia's author Flannery O & Connor. Her creative vision is economic difficulties, racial terrorism, ethnic wisdom of African-American living and culture, especially in rural areas in the south. Her writing embarrasses the pluralistic intimacy among women, embarrassing the relief power of the social revolution and the political revolution.
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