- Paperback: 198 pages
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (November 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1578065127
- ISBN-13: 978-1578065127
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.3 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 327 g
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Walker, best known for her novel Jubilee, was a literary figure who bridged the Harlem Renaissance and black-nationalist generations. This latest in a series of conversations with authors highlights Walker's love of folklore and the language of southern black folks, a trait she shared with Zora Neale Hurston. The interviews range from 1972 to 1996 and highlight Walker's deep sense of humanity, a Christian humanity that put her at odds, on occasion, with the brash young, race-conscious writers who followed her. An interview with Nikki Giovanni in 1972 recalls the difference in the political sensibilities of the black-nationalist artists and writers of the 1970s and those of the artists and writers of Walker's generation. Many interviews touch on her close relationship with Richard Wright and her friendships with several other black literary luminaries, including James Baldwin, Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Walker expounds on the influences on her writing, her personal trials, her sense of the changes in attitude toward race and sex during her lifetime, and the function of writers in articulating social issues. Vanessa Bush
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