The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker includes compelling conversations between acclaimed writer Walker and other significant literary and cultural figures, including Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, Pema Chodron, Claudia Tate, Margo Jefferson, William Ferris, Paula Giddings, and Amy Goodman. Each conversation represents a different stage in Walker’s artistic and spiritual development; taken together, they offer an unprecedented angle of vision on her career as well as on her personal and political development. Noted literary scholar Rudolph Byrd sets Walker’s work into context with an introductory essay, as well as with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of her writings.
Includes Alice Walker in conversation with the following:
John O’Brien on her early writing career and inspirations
Claudia Tate on being part of the emerging coterie of black women writers in the 1970s
Ellen Bring on her animal rights activism and its importance to her world view and writing
Claudia Dreifus on politics and fiction writing
Paula Giddings in Essence
Jody Hoy on her personal philosophy
Tammy Simon from Sounds True Recordings
Evelyn White from Ms.
Pema Chodron on the importance of Buddhisim to her work and writing
William R. Ferris on being a black female writer from the South
Margo Jefferson A Conversation from LIVE FROM THE NYPL on her success with The Color Purple and being a celebrity
Amy Goodman on her politics and activism
George Galloway on why she supports Castro
Marrianne Schnall from feminist.com
Howard Zinn on her Mississippi years, experiences with Zinn as a student, role of the civil rights movement in her work.
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
The New Press
Release
May 11, 2010
ISBN
159558496X
ISBN 13
9781595584960
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker includes compelling conversations between acclaimed writer Walker and other significant literary and cultural figures, including Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, Pema Chodron, Claudia Tate, Margo Jefferson, William Ferris, Paula Giddings, and Amy Goodman. Each conversation represents a different stage in Walker’s artistic and spiritual development; taken together, they offer an unprecedented angle of vision on her career as well as on her personal and political development. Noted literary scholar Rudolph Byrd sets Walker’s work into context with an introductory essay, as well as with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of her writings.
Includes Alice Walker in conversation with the following:
John O’Brien on her early writing career and inspirations
Claudia Tate on being part of the emerging coterie of black women writers in the 1970s
Ellen Bring on her animal rights activism and its importance to her world view and writing
Claudia Dreifus on politics and fiction writing
Paula Giddings in Essence
Jody Hoy on her personal philosophy
Tammy Simon from Sounds True Recordings
Evelyn White from Ms.
Pema Chodron on the importance of Buddhisim to her work and writing
William R. Ferris on being a black female writer from the South
Margo Jefferson A Conversation from LIVE FROM THE NYPL on her success with The Color Purple and being a celebrity
Amy Goodman on her politics and activism
George Galloway on why she supports Castro
Marrianne Schnall from feminist.com
Howard Zinn on her Mississippi years, experiences with Zinn as a student, role of the civil rights movement in her work.