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Q Choose the right chronological sequence of the publication of the

following
books: (NTA NET 2021)
Answer
Doris Lessing,
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Toni Morrison,
The Bluest Eye (1970)
Alice Walker,
The Color Purple (1982)
Margaret Atwood,
The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Q . "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender". This is an
important
statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
Answer
Alice Walker
Q The term "womanism" was first used by
Answer
Alice Walker
Q Match the following authors with their works:
List - A List B
I. Alice Walker- The Colour Purple
Il. Ralph Ellison-Invisible Man
III. Richard Wright- Native Son
IV Zora Neale Hurston-
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Q Match the term with the theorist:
Answer-
(Term). (Theorist)
Negritude- Aime Cesaire
Womanism- Alice Walker
Interpellation- Louis Althusser
Public Sphere - Jurgen Habermas
Alice Walker
https://t.me/literarypassion
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker)
(February 9, 1944)
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.
First African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
(1982)for
novel The Color Purple
Her first novel- The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Editor of Ms. Magazine,
Walker coined term womanist in her collection In Search of Our
Mothers'
Gardens, to mean "a black feminist or feminist of color." (1983)
Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of
Women
(1993) with Pratibha Parmar
Her famous Short story
Everyday Use.
Her major Novels
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Meridian (1976)
(About civil rights movement)
The Color Purple (1982)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
By the Light of My Father’s Smile (1998) (about female sexuality)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004)( Black female novelist,
Kate, & her
search for new meaning)
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000)
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
Walker's 2013-
1. The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole
World
Awakens to Being in Harm's Way.
2. The other was a book of poems entitled The World Will Follow Joy
Turning
Madness into Flowers (New Poems).
Latest poems
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems (2019)
Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (2018)
The Color Purple
Epistolary novel.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983)
Adapted into a film of same name.
The Color Purple Meaning-
Wisdom, Bravery & Spirituality
Story of traumas & gradual triumph of Celie, an African American
teenager
raised in rural isolation in Georgia.
she comes to resist the paralyzing self-concept forced on her by
others.
Celie narrates her life through painfully honest letters to God.
At end, two sisters are reunited, while Albert and Harpo have learned to
take
on new roles in the household and in their relationships

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