Fields Watered with Blood

Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8203-3886-6
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood - now available in paperback - constituted 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.”

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Maryemma Graham is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kansas as well as the founder and director of the Project on the History of Black Writing. Among her books are three edited collections, On Being Female, Black and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992; How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker; and Conversations with Margaret Walker.