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1、Everyday UseFor Grandmother by Alice Walker,1973The story of Alice WalkervLife experiencevMain worksvThought of writingvWomanistBlack woman can survive only by recovering the heritage of their ancestors. In Search of Our Mothers GardenLife experiencevWalker was born in 1944 Eatonton, Georgia in a te
2、nant family vShe is the youngest one of the eight children vGrowing up with an oral tradition, listening to stories from her grandfather (the model for the character for Mr. in The Color Purple), Walker was writingvery privatelysince she was eight years old. “With my family, I had to hide things,“ s
3、he said. “And I had to keep a lot in my mind.“vIn 1952, Walker was accidentally wounded in the right eye by a shot by one of her brothers. Then she was permanently blind in that eye, felt like an outcast and she turned for solace to reading and to writing poetry. She realized that her traumatic inju
4、ry had some value: it allowed her to begin “really to see people and things, really to notice relationships and to learn to be patient enough to care about how they turned outvIn high school , she became valedictorian and got rehabilitation scholarship which made her to Spelman, a college for black
5、woman, in Atlanta.vAfter spending two years in Spelman, she went to Sarah Lawrence in New York. During her junior year, she went to Africa as a exchange student. She got her BA degree in 1965.vShe married a Jewish lawyer Mel Leventhal whom she divorced later, and had a daughter.vShe is teaching in Y
6、ale University.ActivismvAlice Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College in Atlanta in the early 1960s. Walker credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist for the Civil Rights Movement. vShe attended the famous 1963March on Washington
7、. As a young adult she volunteered her time registering voters in Georgia and Mississippi vOn March 8, 2003, International Womens Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker was arrested along with 24 others for crossing a police line during an anti-war protest rally outside the White House. Walke
8、r wrote about the experience in her essay “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For.“vIn November 2008, Alice Walker wrote “An Open Letter to Barack Obama“ that was published on The root. Com. Walker address the newly elected President as “Brother Obama”Novels and short story collectionsvThe Third L
9、ife of Grange Copeland(1970)vIn Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)vMeridian(1976)vThe Color Purple(1982)vYou Cant Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)vTo Hell With Dying (1988)vThe Temple of My Familiar(1989)vFinding the Green Stone (1991)vPossessing the Secret of Joy(1992)vThe Comple
10、te Stories (1994)vBy The Light of My Fathers Smile (1998)vThe Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)vNow Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005)vDevils My Enemy (2008Non-fictionvIn Search of Our Mothers Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) ，“母亲的花园”作为妇女主义的一个具象，既代表了黑人 女性创造力和审美特征，又象征了妇女主义所追求的完整 生存的理想境界。 vLi
11、ving by the Word (1988) social issues ranging from homosexuality to animal rights. vWarrior Marks(1993)vThe Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)vAnything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writers Activism (1997)vGo Girl!: The Black Womans Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)vPema Chodron and Alice W
12、alker in Conversation (1999)vWe Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)vMississippi Winter IVvOvercoming Speechlessness (2010)Poetry collectionsvOnce (1968)vRevolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)vGood Night, Willie Lee, Ill See You in the Morning (1979)vHorses Make a Landscape Look More
13、Beautiful (1985)vHer Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)vAbsolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)vA Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)vCollected Poems (2005)vPoem at Thirty-NineSelect awards and honorsvPulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (f
14、irst black woman).vNational Book Award (First black woman)vO. Henry Award for “Kindred Spirits“ 1985.vHonorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995)vAmerican Humanist Association named her as “Humanist of the Year“ (1997)vThe Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the
15、ArtsvThe Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & LettersvThe Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim FellowshipvThe Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswomans Club of New YorkvInduction to the California Hall of Fame in The Califor
16、nia Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (2006)The color purplevCelies story, that of a poor, black, and ugly women, depicts her struggle against first incest, then marital cruelty and exploitation, through to a slow and painful realization of her own worth, which comes via her love for a woman, Shug Avery.vIt is an epistolary novel which constitutes of 94 letters using a slang expression. vThe color of purple was brought to sc
