Alice Walker remains best known for her novel, The Color Purple (1982), which won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. In her short story "Everyday Use," written a few years before, we can Walker see exploring many of the same concerns that drive her famous novel: African-American women, motherhood and how families hold on to bonds through struggle, and the way that different generations often struggle to understand and accept one another's priorities. "Everyday Use" focuses on a mother, her two daughters, and a simple question: who should get the family quilts? From this simple question, however, grows a rich and complex portrait of the dynamic between three African-American women.
This program is a part of our "Celebrating Women's History" series and is the sixth program in our ongoing "Race and American Culture" series. Copies of "Everyday Use" are available at your library's Ask Us desk or register for the program online to be emailed a copy.
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About Dr. Ian Afflerbach
Dr. Ian Afflerbach is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of North Georgia, where he teaches and researches in 20th century American literature, political history, African-American studies, and the history of ideas.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and has lived in Montreal, Vermont, North Carolina, and Germany. His writing has appeared in journals like English Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, and Studies in the Novel. He was named a 2019 Fellow by the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies in Mainz, Germany.
Alice Walker's Everyday Use
Sun, Mar 21, 2021 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
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