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In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Books About Books)
Maybe someday
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82/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Salamishah Tillet
Publisher:
Harry N. Abrams
Date:
January 12, 2021
Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple .
What The Reviewers Say
Tillet, who is a professor of African-American studies and creative writing at Rutgers University and a contributing critic at The New York Times, offers up a history of The Color Purple, from novel to film to Broadway musical, with an emphasis on how sexism within the Black community—and the white establishment’s preference to frame racial injustice in terms of concerns facing Black men—stood between The Color Purple and recognition as 'an American masterpiece.' For Tillet, Walker’s novel strikes a personal chord.
[An] elegy of appreciation of Alice Walker’s genius through the Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Color Purple, which tells stories of redemption and triumph over gendered and racist violence.
A close look at the genesis, impact, and transformation of a beloved novel.
New York Times critic-at-large, surveys nearly 40 years of cultural grappling in this insightful account of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple .
