In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Tillet, Salamishah
In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Tillet, Salamishah

In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece

Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial...
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Author: Salamishah Tillet
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In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Tillet, Salamishah

In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece

$61.52
In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by Tillet, Salamishah

In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece

$61.52
Author: Salamishah Tillet
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple

Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence.

Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker's epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated film and a hit Broadway musical.

Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker's life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her--as a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic.

Provocative and personal, In Search of The Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walker's seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics.

Author: Salamishah Tillet
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 01/12/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781419735301


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2020
Library Journal 01/01/2021 pg. 73
Publishers Weekly 01/11/2021
Booklist 01/01/2021 pg. 28

About the Author
Salamishah Tillet is a scholar, cultural critic, and activist. A professor at Rutgers University-Newark and previously a professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she is a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times. With her sister, she cofounded A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based national nonprofit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. She lives in New Jersey.
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