{"product_id":"in-search-of-the-color-purple-the-story-of-an-american-masterpiece","title":"In Search Of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece;  Salamishah Tillet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProminent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated film and a hit Broadway musical.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker’s life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her—as a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProvocative and personal, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Search of The Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walker’s seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanuary 12, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44647374160194,"sku":"","price":6.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/1b75c0_c2ab23921b1041c18b7e9576ee81fffc_mv2.jpg?v=1677802300","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/in-search-of-the-color-purple-the-story-of-an-american-masterpiece","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}