{"product_id":"fields-watered-with-blood-critical-essays-on-margaret-walker-9780820338866","title":"Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003eRepresenting an international gathering of scholars, \u003ci\u003eFields Watered with Blood\u003c\/i\u003e--now available in paperback--constituted 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 \u003ci\u003eFor My People\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eJubilee\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 writings and show how Walker's accomplishments as a scholar, teacher, activist, mother, and family elder influenced what and how she wrote. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brief biography, an interview with literary critic Claudia Tate, a chronology of major events in Walker's life, and a selected bibliography round out this collection, which will do much to further our understanding of the writer whom poet Nikki Giovanni once called \"the most famous person nobody knows.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maryemma Graham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARYEMMA GRAHAM is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of Kansas, where she directs the Project on the History of Black Writing. Among her books are two edited collections, \u003ci\u003eOn Being Female, Black, and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\"How I Wrote Jubilee\" and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40195954704499,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_04315d1c-9fab-4aef-b936-5bfad5841adc.jpg?v=1655992823","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/fields-watered-with-blood-critical-essays-on-margaret-walker-9780820338866","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}