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Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes 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 writin

Women and literature --- African Americans in literature. --- African American women in literature. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women in literature --- History --- Walker, Margaret, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker,

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The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP)—a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on critical histories, archival documents, and select works of fiction, the book examines the nature and history of the FWP’s documentary method and its literary imprint, particularly on three key black American writers: Ralph Ellison, Dorothy West, and Margaret Walker. By aiming their documentary lenses so precisely on individual voices, folklore, and cultural communities, FWP writers would ultimately eschew the social realism of thirties culture in favor of themes surrounding personal and cultural identities in the postwar era. This concise volume demonstrates how the FWP served as a repository from which many of the most treasured 20th century writers drew material, techniques, and philosophical direction in ways that would help steer the course of American writing.

Literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literary History. --- History and criticism. --- 20th century. --- Literatures. --- Depressions --- United States --- History --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- America-Literatures. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Ellison, Ralph --- West, Dorothy, --- Walker, Margaret, --- Ellison, Ralph. --- West, Dorothy --- Walker, Margaret --- Schwarze, ... --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Federal Writers' Project --- Federal Writers' Project. --- California --- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer --- History. --- Alexander, Margaret A. --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker --- Walker Alexander, Margaret --- Schriftstellerin --- 1915-1998 --- 1907-1998 --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo --- Waldo Ellison, Ralph --- Ellison, Ralph W. --- Schriftsteller --- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma --- New York, NY --- 1914-1994 --- 01.03.1914-16.04.1994 --- Christopher, Mary, --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker, --- אליסון, ראלף --- Umschulungswerkstätte für Siedler und Auswanderer --- USA --- Bitterfeld --- Federal Writers' Program --- Federal Writers' Projects --- FWP --- United States. --- Writers' Program (U.S.) --- 1913-1994 --- 01.03.1913-16.04.1994 --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation