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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 586 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Margaret Walker Alexander, a prominent author in the black community, and known to her students at Jackson State University for her teaching abilities, appreciates Tennessee Williams as a modern playwright whom she considers a forerunner of the Theater of the Absurd. 'Streetcar Named Desire' is her favorite play and she considers this, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'The Glass Menagerie' to be Williams' best. Walker also admires actors such as Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy who have been cast in many Williams plays.

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Title: An interview with Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander on Tennessee Williams.(Special Issue: Tennessee Williams)(Interview)
Author: Patricia Grierson
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v48Issue: n4Page: p587(2)

Article Type: Interview

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During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectualforces---nationalism and Marxism
---clashed and changed the future ofAfrican American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers withnationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose ofthe day.

Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars:A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. It boldly proposes thatsuch writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright,who often saw the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance theanti-racist politics of African American letters than writers such asCountee Cullen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alain Locke, and Marcus Garvey, whoremained enmeshed in nationalist and racialist discourse.

Evaluating the great impact of Marxism and nationalism on black authorsfrom the Harlem Renaissance and the Depression era, Anthony Dawahare arguesthat the spread of nationalist ideologies and movements between the worldwars did guide legitimate political desires of black writers for a worldwithout racism. But the nationalist channels of political and culturalresistance did not address the capitalist foundation of modern racialdiscrimination.

During the period known as the "Red Decade" (1929­1941), black writersdeveloped some of the sharpest critiques of the capitalist world and thusanticipated contemporary scholarship on the intellectual and politicalhazards of nationalism for the working class.

As it examines the progression of the Great Depression, the book focuses onthe shift of black writers to the Communist Left, including analyses of theCommunists' position on the "Negro Question," the radical poetry ofLangston Hughes, and the writings of Richard Wright. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from MELUS, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 11423 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Shatterings: violent disruptions of homeplace in Jubilee and The Street.(Ann Petry)(Margaret Walker)(essay)(Critical essay)
Author: Amanda J. Davis
Publication: MELUS (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 30Issue: 4Page: 25(27)

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This digital document is an article from Yearbook of English Studies, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 563 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker.(Book Review)
Author: Stephen Matterson
Publication: Yearbook of English Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 34Page: 341(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Nancy Berke studies the poetry of three radical women authors who wrote in the first half of the 20th century about the compelling issues of their times: the depression, working-class movements, the Great Migration, and race discrimination.

In a clear and concise style, Berke offers readers a theoretical framework, historical overview, and careful reading of the poetry of Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, and Margaret Walker. She describes the rich social, historical, and political context of their work, making the book an in-depth study of the gender issues, radical politics, and poetry of the modern period, 1915-1945.

With Walker, the best known of the three poets, Berke focuses on the writer's contributions to African American modernism during the depression and World War II. With Ridge and Taggard, she explores how the neglect of these poets, particularly by feminist literary criticism, has seriously altered awareness of the social and political concerns of feminist modernists. The work of these politically committed leftist poets, accompanied by Berke's discussion of their influential writing, advances the ongoing conversation of modernism as a highly contested literary and cultural movement.

Paying particular attention to the issue of class, she stresses the need for modern American poetry to move beyond aesthetic biases and place greater importance on social categories such as race, class, and gender. Though written primarily for literary scholars, the book will appeal to general readers interested in gender issues, politics, poetry, or the history of the left or of feminism. ... Read more

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Groundbreaking in many ways, Jubilee is the historical and fictional account of the life of Margaret Walker's great-grandmother, from slavery through Reconstruction. In Trumpeting a Fiery Sound Jacqueline Miller Carmichael examines the novel's genesis and composition, the process of revision and publication, the work's structure and narrative strategies, its use of history and folklore, and its critical reception. ... Read more

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Compelling
This book is worth the cost.It is exiting compelling and interesting.I can read it over and over again.Margaret Walker is an excellent author. ... Read more

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To be truly reflective, moral thinking and moral philosophy must become aware of the contexts that bind our thinking about how to live. These essays show how to do this, and why it makes a difference. Visit our website for sample chapters! ... Read more

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Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic examples of both personal betrayal and political violence to analyze how moral bonds are damaged by serious wrongs and what must be done to repair the damage. Focusing on victims of wrong, their right to validation, and their sense of justice, Walker presents a unified and detailed philosophical account of hope, trust, resentment, forgiveness, and making amends - the emotions and practices that sustain moral relations. Moral Repair joins a multidisciplinary literature concerned with transitional and restorative justice, reparations, and restoring individual dignity and mutual trust in the wake of serious wrongs. ... Read more

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Another Beautiful Book
"The Fire Ever Burning" by Aaron Henry and Constance Curry is an important contribution about the Civil Rights Movement. Henry was loved by his friends and was considered to be astute, brave and caring. As was often typical of the times, he was accused of some rotten stuff. How else do you stop people from obtaining their rights? Constance Curry, who wrote this book from Henry's papers, lived the Civil Rights Movement and was actively involved in the Mississippi Delta where Henry lived. She is a careful researcher and writes from the heart. Like "Silver Rights" by Curry, about school integration in the Delta, this book is another good read and I highly recommend it.

Aaron Henry--a morally bankrupt man
I came to know Aaron Henry when he was elected to serve in the Mississippi House in 1980. Initially I thought he was a doddering relic, yet pleasant enough, who tended to pontificate. He was in over his head and didn't really seem to have much interest in the legislative process and, as a result, was not highly regarded by his peers. He had a long history of arrests in city parks in the middle of the night, if you catch my drift. He made advances toward me and several other individuals--it was pathetic. Aaron Henry is indicative of the rotten core of the civil rights movement and liberal politicians in general--you don't have to look far for this. He ranks up there with Al Lowenstein and Bill Clinton. I believe this book is self serving and out of synch with reality. ... Read more

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Fifteen original essays open up a novel area of inquiry: the distinctively ethical dimensions of women's experiences of and in aging. Contributors distinguished in the fields of feminist ethics and the ethics of aging explore assumptions,experiences,practices,and public policies that affect women's well-being and dignity in later life. The book brings to the study of women's aging a reflective dimension missing from the empirical work that has predominated to date. Ethical studies of aging have so far failed to emphasize gender. And feminist ethics has neglected older women,even when emphasizing other dimensions of difference. Finally work on aging in all fields has focused on the elderly,while this volume sees aging as an extended process of negotiating personal and social change. ... Read more

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Age before beauty
Every now and then a book appears which responds to a real need, even ifyou didn't know the need existed.This book breaks new ground on the issueof aging and women.The studies on images of women and how it affectswomen aging are especially good.Not all is perfect.Many claims are madefor the differences between male aging and female aging, but little proofis given.The religious issues which surround aging are strangely absent. Still, this is a first and a scholarly one. ... Read more

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The marriage of Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh was more than a marriage of great love and deep friendship; it was a lucky literary match, both for them and for a world made richer by the creation of GONE WITH THE WIND.

Based on almost 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews with their closest associates, this ground-breaking new biography allows the extraordinary couple to tell their love story in their own words.In extracts form their letters to family and friends, John and Peggy describe the stormy years of their courtship, the arduous but fulfilling years when Peggy ws writing her famous novel, the thrill of its literary success, the excitement of the movie making . . . . All of the exhilarating, poignant, and moving moments of their lives are brought to life by the voices of John and Peggy themselves.

In telling the private story of this remarkable 24-year marriage, author Marianne Walker reveals a ling-suspected truth-that GONE WITH THE WIND might never have been written if Margaret Mitchell had not married John Marsh.In addition to being Peggy's husband, best friend, and constant support, he acted as her editor, proofreader, researcher, business manager, and in general, the inspiration obehind her work.At every point in their relationship, including the turbulent years of Mitchell's first marriage to Red Upshaw, it was john who providedthe intellectual stimulation, emotional support, and editorial expertise that enabled his gifted wife to channel her talents into the making of GONE WITH THE WIND.

After years of meticulous research, Marianne Walker has created a fascinating portrait of a love match between a writer and her editor-a childless marriage dominated from beginning to end by their dear but difficult "baby," GONE WITH THE WIND. ... Read more

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From A Teens Perspective
Margaret Mitchell's own love story accentuated the movie. She was able to create such a romantic story because she was leading such a romantic life herself.

Margaret Mitchell Love Story
I felt that Margaret Mitchell's family was part of my own, and hated to see the book end.Am reading it now for the second time.Would love to communicate with Marianne Walker, direct.Just finished reading DardenAsbury Pyron's SOUTHERN DAUGHTER and it has made me so MAD.There are somany contradictions in it with the Walker version and I choose to believeMarianne! As you can see, I am a devoted Margaret Mitchell fan and havetried to read every thing I could throughout the years.I look forward tolearning if Marianne Walker is available to the "general" public,like me.

Not just for GWTW fans!This books is truly interesting.
I have been a GWTW fan since I was 12.This book is a must for GWTW fans and anyone else as well.This book gives us a peek into the writing process and what instant fame and forture can do to a person.It alsotells us of interesting facts about Margaret Mitchell, her husband John,and their families.This story is told partially through letters saved byfriends and families.A wonderful insight to that era of GWTW's initialpopularity. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6315 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sharing Responsibility.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v27Issue: n1Page: p38(7)

Article Type: Book Review

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 6316 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck.
Author: Margaret Walker
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v27Issue: n1Page: p38(7)

Article Type: Book Review

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