{"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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graham, Maryemma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.86d","brand":"Maryemma Graham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32746648469579,"sku":"9780820338866","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_a9f5b940-16f1-4347-8915-c76d00fde2e8.jpg?v=1597722171","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/fields-watered-with-blood-critical-essays-on-margaret-walker-9780820338866","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}