¶ … Alice Walker writes about African-American movement. It has 4 sources. Alice Walker is acknowledged as an undoubtedly important figure in African-American literature. Her work dealt with the issues of racism, sexism and mankind's ability to overcome all forms of oppression through active or passive struggle. She did this in the form of poetry, novels such as "The Color Purple," "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" and "Meridian" or essays like "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens." Her stories were often from the point-of-view of and portraying the situation of abused and oppressed Black women in America. That this gave a negative picture of Black males to some...

2001] "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" "I know many Brownfields, and it's a shame that I know so many. I will not ignore people like Brownfield. I want you to know I know they exist. I want to tell you about them, and there is no way you are going to avoid them."[Contemporary Black Biography. 1991]
She elaborates how socio-economic conditions influence the reactions of the males in her novels who exert the power and strength they are denied in society on their helpless families out of frustration and ignorance. The winner of a Pulitzer…