User:Raanyasiddiqui/Alice Walker
Walker has never denied that there are some autobiographical dimensions to her stories. When "Advancing Luna—and Ida B. Wells" was first published in Ms. magazine, Walker included a disclaimer that "Luna and Freddie Pye are composite characters, and their names are made up. This is a fictionalized account suggested by a number of real events".[2] John O' Brien's 1973 interview with Walker offers further details.
Animal Advocacy[edit][edit]
Walker has expressed that animal advocacy is one of her central concerns. Her fiction has increasingly embraced animal ethics over the past four decades, as she works to include animals as both active participants in her novels and as symbols for what she has called "consciousness." Her earliest fiction represents nonhuman animals inasmuch as they are part of human life - namely as farmed animals, food sources, and absent referents for animalized epithets directed at humans, and her fiction increasingly incorporates the animal experience. She has advocated for greater consciousness in human beings and their relationships with animals, stating, "Encouraging others to love nature, to respect other human beings and animals, to adore this earth, is part of my work in this world."
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- ^ O'Brien, John (1973). Interviews with Black Writers (1st ed.). New York: Liveright. p. 196.
- ^ Petry, Alice Hall (1989). "Alice Walker: The Achievement of the Short Fiction". Modern Language Studies. 19 (1): 12–27. doi:10.2307/3195263. ISSN 0047-7729.