Author Event : In Search of the Color Purple
Tue, Mar 30
|Crowdcast Event
Join us for an evening with Salamishah Tillet in conversation Kamilah Forbes to discuss In Search of the Color Purple!


Time & Location
Mar 30, 2021, 7:00 PM EDT
Crowdcast Event
About the Event
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple.
Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. 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.
Prominent 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. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It…