White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
198, 199-201
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Alice Walker | AW
made several new writer friends during her Mississippi years. Both Giovanni
and Jordan
visited her. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 198, 199-201 White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 216-17 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Walker | This job cemented her friendship with Gloria Steinem
. Later, after her divorce, AW
and June Jordan
started The Sisterhood, a group of black women, artists of one kind of another, who met regularly for... |
Friends, Associates | Adrienne Rich | AR
's colleagues at City College and within the SEEK program included Toni Cade Bambara
, June Jordan
, Larry Neal
, and Robert Cumming
. Her thinking and teaching also began to be influenced... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | AR
writes here on June Jordan
, Audre Lorde
, Muriel Rukeyser
, and Wallace Stevens
, among others. She reiterates her passionate belief in the links between poetic, personal, and social consciousness and activity:... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phillis Wheatley | PW
's work proved both immediately and lastingly compelling for other black American writers, of whose tradition she was the progenitor. Jupiter Hammon
, the first of his race to publish in America, addressed his... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Walker | The opening words of the title are quoted from June Jordan
. The opening words of the text, more surprisingly, come from Dickens
: It is the worst of times. It is the best of... |
Occupation | Alice Walker | She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute
writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 218, 222, 225 |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all... |
Violence | Alice Walker | It was dangerous for a mixed couple to live there, and they protected themselves with guns and a dog. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 154, 156-8 |
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