Margaret Walker

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Margaret Walker ( Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander through marriage; 7 July 1915 - November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. He is part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. His famous works include the award-winning poem For My People (1942) and the Jubilee novel (1966), which was established in the South during the American Civil War.

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Biography

Walker was born in Texas, Alabama, to Sigismund C. Walker, a minister, and Marion (nÃÆ' Â © e Dozier) Walker, who helped their daughter by teaching philosophy and poetry as a child. His family moved to New Orleans when Walker was a young girl. She went to school there, including several years of college, before she moved north to Chicago.

In 1935, Walker received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University. In 1936 he began working with the Federal Writers Project under the Governing Progress Government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. He is a member of the South Side Writers Group, which includes writers such as Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Fenton Johnson, Theodore Ward, and Frank Marshall Davis.

In 1942, he received his master's degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa. In 1965, he returned to the school to earn his Ph.D.

Walker married Firnist Alexander in 1943 and moved to Mississippi to be with him. They have four children together and live in the capital city of Jackson.

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Academic career

Walker became a literary professor in what is now Jackson State University, a black history college, where he taught from 1949 to 1979. In 1968, Walker founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of the Blacks (now Margaret Walker Center) and his personal documents are now stored there. In 1976, he went on to serve as director of the Institute.

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Literary writing

In 1942, Walker's poetry collection for My People won the Yale Series Poet Competition under the tutelage of editor Stephen Vincent Benet, making him the first black woman to receive a national writing prize. Her For My People is considered "the most important collection of poems written by a participant in the Black Chicago Renaissance before Gwendolyn Brooks's A Street in Bronzeville ." Richard Barksdale says: "The [title] poem is written when" pain, sadness, and suffering throughout the real world are proven, and few can isolate the black men's dilemmas from human dilemmas during the depressed years or during the war years. "says that the strength of endurance presented in the poem is the hope that Walker brings not only to blacks, but to everyone, to" all Adams and Eves. "

The book published by Walker (and only novel), Jubilee (1966), is the story of a slave family during and after the Civil War, and is based on the life of his great-grandmother. It took thirty years to write. Roger Whitlow said: "This works very well in response to the white 'nostalgic' fiction about the Civil War and the Southern Reconstruction."

This book is considered important in African-American literature and Walker is an influential figure for younger writers. She is the first generation of women who started publishing more novels in the 1970s.

In 1975, Walker released three poetry albums on Folkways Records - Margaret Walker Alexander Reading Poems Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes ; Margaret Walker Reading Margaret Walker and Langston Hughes ; and Margaret Walker Poems .

Walker received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1989.

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Court case

In 1978, Margaret Walker sued Alex Haley, claiming that her 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of American Family had violated the copyright of Jubilee by borrowing from her novel. The case was fired.

In 1991, Walker was sued by Ellen Wright, widow of Richard Wright, on the grounds that Walker used unpublished letters and unpublished journals in Wright's recently published biography violated the widow's copyright. Wright v. Warner Books is dismissed by the district court, and this decision is backed by an appeals court.

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Death and inheritance

Walker died of breast cancer in Chicago, Illinois, in 1998, 83 years old.

Walker dilantik ke The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame pada tahun 2014.

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Bekerja

• Untuk Orang Saya . Ayer. 1942. ISBNÂ 978-0-405-01902-9 Â (cetak ulang 1968)
• Oktober Journey . Broadside Press. 1973. ISBNÂ 978-0-910296-96-0
• Ini Adalah Abadiku: Puisi Baru dan yang Dikumpulkan . Universitas Georgia Press. 1989. ISBNÂ 978-0-8203-1135-7.
• Jubilee . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1999. ISBNÂ 978-0-395-92495-2. < rentang>
• Maryemma Graham, ed. (1990). Bagaimana Aku Menulis Jubilee dan Esai Lainnya tentang Kehidupan dan Sastra . Feminis Press. ISBNÂ 978-1-55861-004-0
• Maryemma Graham, ed. (2002). Percakapan dengan Margaret Walker . Universitas Press Mississippi. ISBN: 978-1-57806-512-7.

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Biografi film

• Untuk Orang-Orang Saya, Kehidupan dan Penulisan Margaret Walker , didistribusikan oleh California Newsreel.

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Bacaan lebih lanjut

Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker by Carolyn J. Brown, published in 2014. This is Margaret Walker's first biography.

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References

External links

• Amiri Baraka (January 4, 1999). "Margaret Walker Alexander". Nation . Retrieved May 7, 2013 .
• Margaret Walker on the Smithsonian Folkways
• "Margaret Walker: Choose Bibliography", Modern American Poetry.
• Margaret Walker at the Poetry Foundation

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