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Sewing and quilting in alice walker the color purple "and everyday use": connection, disconnection, and emancipation
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2014Mulheres e escravos não tinham acesso à educação formal nos Estados Unidos no século XIX. Por outro lado, costurar era uma atividade obrigatória até mesmo para meninas da mais tenra infância. O exercício da costura proporcionava também resultados subjetivos, sendo prescrito para acalmar as mulheres quando se irritavam com os deveres domésticos. No entanto, as mulheres transformaram o peso das obrigações em oportunidade. Enquanto se encontravam para fazer quilts, elas se fortaleciam como grupo, discutindo tanto assuntos domésticos quanto públicos, como a confecção de uma colcha de núpcias ou o direito das mulheres ao voto. Assim, elas encontraram nas agulhas o meio de expressão negado na leitura e na escrita. À época do bicentenário da independência dos Estados Unidos, os quilts foram redescobertos pelos historiadores e pelo mundo da arte, e adquiriram o status de arte. O passo seguinte foi a descoberta da relação entre quilts e a escrita feminina, bem como a aplicabilidade dos quilts como metáfora da textualidade. Na segunda metade do século XX, o movimento feminista foi criticado por não contemplar as necessidades de todas as mulheres, mas dirigir-se a um grupo específico: mulheres brancas, da classe média e com educação formal. Em resposta, surgiu o conceito de interseccionalidade. Com relação à arte, Alice Walker tem abordado a questão da criatividade das mulheres negras nas gerações anteriores ao indagar como elas mantiveram viva a criatividade sem ler e escrever, e sem ter consciência da própria criatividade. As narrativas de Walker analisadas neste trabalho, The Color Purple e "Everyday Use", tratam a costura e o fazer quilts principalmente como atividades favoráveis ao fortalecimento dos relacionamentos interpessoais. Além disso, considera-se que essas atividades constituem instrumentos de expressão que contribuem para a descoberta da criatividade, das subjetividades e das identidades das personagens, e consequentemente, de seus respectivos processos de emancipação.Abstract: Women and slaves had no access to writing or reading in the United States in the nineteenth century. However, sewing was a mandatory activity even for very young girls. More than bedcovers, sewing also provided subjective results, being prescribed to compose women when they got irritated with their duties in domestic life. However, women turned the burden of duty into opportunity. While they met to quilt, they grew stronger as a group. They discussed domestic as well as public issues, ranging from the confection of a bridal quilt to women's suffrage. Then, they found in their needles the medium for the expression they lacked in writing and reading. At the event of the Independence Bicentennial, quilts were rediscovered by historians and the art world, and acquired status of art. The next step was the discovery of the relationship between quilting and women's writing, as well as its applicability as a metaphor for textuality. Together with the rediscovery of quilts, the feminist movement in the second half of the twentieth century was criticized for not addressing all women's needs, being directed to a specific group: white, middle class, educated women. As a response, the concept of intersectionality emerged. Concerning art, Alice Walker has approached the issue of creativity of black women in the previous generations by asking how they could keep alive their creativity, once they could not read or write. Walker also states that these black women were not aware of their own creativity. Alice Walker's The Color Purple and "Everyday Use" analyzed in this research deal mainly with sewing and quilting as a favorable circumstance for the strengthening of interpersonal relationships. Also sewing and quilting act as instruments for the discovery and expression of the characters' own creativity and identity, and consequently, for their emancipation
Walker, Alice : April 8th, 1980
No full textDescription on cassette : Alice Walker - Fiction Festival
4/7/80; Intro: Amy ElderContents:
All tracks Poetry reading [complete]
Track 01 Introduction
Track 02 Discussion on Zora Neale Hurston
Digital Projects SAN: Folder and disc location for wav file: 20120611/Disc 7. Folder and disc location for mp3 file: 20120611/Disc 1
Correspondence from Alice Walker, 1924-1941
No full textLetters from Alice Walker with photographs and notes by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, all relating to silver crosses worn by Native Americans in Maine. These were digitized from box 1, folder 101 of the Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers. Documents from this folder that did not pertain to Native Americans in Maine were not scanned and are not included in this filehttps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/eckstorm_papers/1015/thumbnail.jp
Alice Walker: "Everyday Use"
No full textMaggie sees the old family quilt—an heirloom already promised to her—as something with practical utility as well as tradition. Her educated, social activist sister wants to hang it on the wall as folk art. With whom will their mother side? A study in class differences and the reclamation of Black history, Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use" is beautifully realized in this dramatization. (26 minutes
Alice Walker banned
No full textAs an introduction to Alice Walker, this small book presents two of Walker's most interesting stories, "Roselily" and "Am I Blue," and the beginning of her prize-winning novel, The Color Purple. Further, the pages of Patricia Holt's introduction and the appendices of letters to the editors and meeting transcripts exemplify ways in which these fictional works have been the center of volatile controversy. They have been the subject of removal from tests (as in the case of the recent literature-based assessment tests in California), from school libraries and from school curricula. These controversies, played out in communities across the United States, cut to the heart of issues of censorship and democratic process
Alice Walker
No full textAlice Walker is pictured her school year at Uintah High School. She is the daughter of George and Florence Walker. She married Doyle Calvin Lambert in 194
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Alice Walker
No full textSince the publication of "The Color Purple" in 1983, Alice Walker has gained a reputation as one of the most popular and most controversial writers in the African American literary tradition. In this study of Walker's novels to appear in Britain, the author explains Walker's project as a "womanist" and cultural/political activist and traces the continuity of her concerns with child abuse, spirituality, sexuality, diaspora and African American history through the essays and novels
Alice Walker
No full textMcNaron, Toni; Zavialova, Maria. (1996). Alice Walker. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/166348
Samuel M. Lodge, (1906-1965), purchased by Mrs. Alice M. Lodge on April 30, 1965.
No full textDocuments regarding the double headstone for Samuel M. Lodge, (1906-1965), buried with Alice M. Lodge, (1909), purchased by Mrs. Alice M. Lodge. The marker was placed at N. Oregon Cemetery, Lot 46, Section C in Toledo, Ohio
Alice Walker
No full textAlice Walker is pictured her school year at Central School. She is the daughter of George and Florence Walker. She married Doyle Calvin Lambert. They divorced and she married Earl J. Hanson. She was born April 15, 1929 and died May 20, 2018
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