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- Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
summary
Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker’s writing: folklore and prophecy, place and space, history and politics, gender and race. In addition, the contributors remark on how Walker’s emphases on spirituality and on dignity in her daily life make themselves felt in her writings and show how Walker’s accomplishments as a scholar, teacher, activist, mother, and family elder influenced what and how she wrote.
A brief biography, an interview with literary critic Claudia Tate, a chronology of major events in Walker’s life, and a selected bibliography round out this collection, which will do much to further our understanding of the writer whom poet Nikki Giovanni once called “the most famous person nobody knows.”
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- Chronology
- pp. xix-xxviii
- Part 1: The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker
- Down from the Mountaintop
- pp. 55-65
- Part 2: From For My People to This Is My Century: The Poetry of Margaret Walker
- Part 3: Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry’s Voice
- Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight
- pp. 290-303
- Contributors
- pp. 341-344
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820346984
Related ISBN(s)
9780820338866
MARC Record
OCLC
881037156
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No