The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
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    [synopsis] => The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker includes compelling conversations between acclaimed writer Walker and other significant literary and cultural figures, including Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, Pema Chodron, Claudia Tate, Margo Jefferson, William Ferris, Paula Giddings, and Amy Goodman. Each conversation represents a different stage in Walker's artistic and spiritual development; taken together, they offer an unprecedented angle of vision on her career as well as on her personal and political development. Noted literary scholar Rudolph Byrd sets Walker's work into context with an introductory essay, as well as with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of her writings. Includes Alice Walker in conversation with the following: John O'Brien (1973) on her early writing career and inspirations; Claudia Tate (1983) on being part of the emerging coterie of black women writers in the 1970s; Ellen Bring (1988) on her animal rights activism and its importance to her world view and writing; Claudia Dreifus (1989) on politics and fiction writing; Paula Giddings (1992) in Essence; Jody Hoy (1994) on her personal philosophy; Tammy Simon from Sounds True Recordings (1995); Evelyn White from Ms. (1998); Pema Chodron (1998) on the importance of Buddhism to her work and writing; William R. Ferris (2004) on being a black female writer from the South; Margo Jefferson A Conversation from LIVE FROM THE NYPL (2005) on her success with The Color Purple and being a celebrity; Amy Goodman (March 2006) on her politics and activism; George Galloway (November 2006) on why she supports Castro; Marrianne Schnall from feminist.com (December 2006); Howard Zinn on her Mississippi years, experiences with Zinn as a student, role of the civil rights movement in her work.
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