The Welcome Table is a short story by Alice Walker. It tells the story of an African-American woman who is invited to a church dinner. The dinner is a tradition in the community, and it is open to all who wish to attend. The woman is hesitant to go, but she decides to go after … Read more
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She wrote the novel “The Color Purple” for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, USA to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Alice Walker grew up in a sharecropper family with … Read more
In “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”, Alice Walker writes about her Stevie Wonder, and how she felt when she saw him for the first time. Stevie Wonder is a famous musician who has been blind since birth. Walker describes him as “the most beautiful thing” she had ever seen. She goes on … Read more
The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker depicts racial tension during the 1930s and uses the colors purple and red to symbolize Celie and Sofia’s hardships as African American women during this time period. Alice Walker married a civil rights attorney, Melvyn Leventhal, in 1967, making them the first interracially married couple in Jackson, … Read more
In the year 1973 Alice Walker published a collection of short stories titled “In Love and Trouble” which includes one of the most widely studied pieces of work till this day titled “Everyday use”. In this short story the author Alice Walker incorporates the struggle and stereotypical beliefs that circulated among the lives of rural … Read more
Alice Walker is a well known poet, novelist, essayist, educator, biographer, and editor and her quote Black women can survive only by recovering the rich heritage of their ancestors, best characterizes her works and life as a black women in this world. (Walker, 1983) Alice Malsenior Walker born February 8, 1944 in Eatonton, Ga. The … Read more
Alice Walker is an African-American novelist and poet; born in Eatonton, Ga. Her parents, Minnie Lou Grant and Willie Lee Walker, were both sharecroppers. She was raised in a shack minutes from Flannery O’Conner’s house, “Andalusia”. Blinded in one eye from an accidental gunshot wound at the young age of eight, Walker fell into somewhat … Read more
