愛麗絲·華克(英語:Alice Walker,1944年2月9日—),美國作家和社會活動家,曾獲普立茲小說獎、美國國家圖書獎[1][2][3],代表作為《紫色姐妹花》,史提芬·史匹堡曾將其改編為同名電影。
早期生活
愛麗絲·華克出生於佐治亞州的一個小鎮[4],有兄弟姊妹八人,她最小。母親為幫傭[5],從小便必須打理家務[6]。八歲時因哥哥不慎導致右眼失明[7]。曾任教於加州大學,致力介紹非洲作家,並長期關注民權、婦女運動。
個人生活
1965年,華克與猶太民權律師Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal相遇。他們1967年3月17日在紐約市結婚。那年晚些時候夫婦搬遷到密西西比州積遜,成為「密西西比第一對合法結婚的跨種族夫婦」。[8][9]他們受到白人的騷擾和威脅,包括三K黨。他們夫婦1969年生了一個女兒Rebecca。華克和她的丈夫於1976年離婚。[10]
作品
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
- In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973)
- Meridian (1976)
- 《紫色姐妹花》 (1982)
- You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982)
- To Hell With Dying (1988)
- The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
- Finding the Green Stone (1991)
- Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
- The Complete Stories (1994)
- By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998)
- The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
- Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) Random House ISBN 9781588363961
- Once (1968)
- Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973)
- Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979)
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991)
- Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)
- A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings (2003)
- Collected Poems (2005)
- Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)
- Living by the Word (1988)
- Warrior Marks (1993)
- The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996)
- Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)
- Go Girl!: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure (1997)
- Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation (1999)
- Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001)
- We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)
- Overcoming Speechlessness (2010)
- Chicken Chronicles, A Memoir (2011)
延伸閱讀
- 愛麗絲·華克著,施寄青譯:《紫色姐妹花》(台北:大地出版社,1986)
- White, Evelyn C. Alice Walker: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32826-4.
- Walker, Alice; Parmar, Pratibha. Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women. Diane Books Publishing Company. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7881-5581-9.
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外部連結
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