ENGL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Alice Walker, Valedictorian, Sharecropping
16 Mar 2016
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Earned ba in 1965 from sarah lawrence college. Published her irst novel, the third life of grange copeland (1970) at age 26. Has become one of the most inluenial woman writers of colour in america today. Heretofore perceived as quite distant but celie herself possess a divinity. Women building communiies together to break free. Celie"s divorce from a community of women draws similariies to atwood"s edible. I don"t know how to ight, all i know is how to stay alive . Spiritual capivity being told not to tell anyone but god. German for leter novel a. k. a. epistolary novel. A novel in the form of leters. Types: those in which all the leters are by one person, those in which the leters are by diferent people. Leters must predominate for the novel to be considered a true briefroman. First-person narrator: author wants us to idenify with the character. Not the intended recipient of these leters reader is not the audience.
