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17THE IMPORTANCE AND REFLECTION OF POLITICAL AND AESTHETICAL VIEWS IN ALICE WALKER'S WORKS
J. Y. Narimanova
Teacher at Uzbekistan state World Languages University
ABSTRACT
The emergence of black women's writing in African-American continents constituted both a literary and a political revolution. It further created a major social realignment as the process of writing turned into personal expression which centered round public interpretation resulting in social and political consequences. However, the liberation of women in general seems to be new, because it follows a lull in feminism until 1960. The present study on Alice Walker attempts to survey in detail and evaluate critically her select novels from the stand point of black consciousness and quest for identity. The research work lays bare the existential plights and excruciating experiences of black women who have to undergo double oppression due to race and gender.
Keywords: Social and political consequences, black women, racist, public sense, criticism.
Alice Walker was born in Eatonton. (Georgia), was the eighth child in the family of a Negro sharecropper and a servant; from childhood she faced racism and social injustice. The Walkers were stokers, although her mother also worked as a seamstress to earn extra money. Walker, the youngest of eight children, was first enrolled in school when she was only four years old. Because the schools at Eatonton were divided, Walker attended the only high school available to blacks: Butler Baker High School. She began to write at the age of 8 under the influence of her grandfather, who told her many stories [1-5].
In 1952, she was accidentally wounded from a gas pistol by one of her brothers and lost sight in one eye, because the family due to poverty was able to provide her with medical assistance only a week later. This is described in more detail in her essay "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is Me".
She studied well in school and in 1961 received a scholarship to continue her studies at Spelman College in Atlanta, where, under the influence of her leftist teacher Howard Zinn, she became a civil rights activist (moreover, according to Walker, the implementation of her literary vocation is possible , and would have remained only a daring dream if it had not been for Zinn's lectures on Russian history and literature). Walker wrote poetry, culminating in her first book of poetry, Once Upon a Time, when she was a student in East Africa and in her final year at Sarah Lawrence College.
Walker slipped her poems under the door of her professor and mentor Muriel Rukeyser's office when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence. Rukeyser then showed the poetry to his agent. It was once published four years later by Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch [6-10]. After graduation, Walker worked briefly with the New York City Department of Social Services before returning south.
She took a job with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense Fund in Jackson, Mississippi. Walker also served as a Black History Consultant for the Mississippi Children's Friends Head Start program. She later returned to writing as a writer-in-residence at Jackson State University (1968-69) and Tougaloo College (1970-71). In addition to her work at Tugalu College, in 1970 Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland. The novel explores the life of Grange Copeland, a cruel and irresponsible sharecropper, husband and father. In the fall of 1972, Walker taught a course on black women writing at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
In 1973, before becoming editor of Ms. Magazine, Walker and literary critic Charlotte D. Hunt discovered an unmarked grave that they believe belonged to Zora Neil Hurston in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Walker marked it with a gray marker that said ZORA NEAL HURSTON / GENIUS OF THE SOUTH / NOVALIST, FOLKLORIST / ANTHROPOLOGIST / 1901-1960. The line "genius of the south" is taken from Gene Toumer's poem "Georgia Sunset", which appears in his book "Cane". In fact, Hurston was born in 1891, not 1901. Walker's 1975 article, "Finding Zora Neil Hurston," published in Ms. Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of this African American writer and anthropologist [11-16].
All the women characters in Walker's works are victims suppressed by the social system and the oppressive value patterns of the black race. The main focus of the thesis is on the struggle of black women to forge an identity for them and also to their racial consciousness. This consciousness also brings a sense of solidarity for the black women with women in general. There is no modern writer who calls himself an "author and medium" means nonsense, and Alice Walker is really totally like me and a representative writer for our present time. The success of color Purple deserves color; Walker's sensitivity is very close to the spirit of the century. Instead of trying to analyze the poetic and artistic prose that is unique to me is not yet authorized to make a judgment or "In our search On "Mother's Gardens That Bypass Me," I focus here on Walker's meditation to his recognized predecessor, Zora Neil Hurston. Not here more important to me than this book, Walker writes of Hurston's mastery [17-21]. Described by Alice Walker in The Black Writer and the Southern Experience his attitude towards the south is very dubious. Walker is capable of that remember the big white world with great anger The "evil greedy people" who paid three hundred dollars to his landlord father during twelve months of labor he can do it "to death" Remember the "public
sense" that allowed blacks overcoming the difficulties of such a racist and sometimes overcoming him society Although he insists he is "not nostalgic". . . for lost poverty, he can also lyrically recall the beauties of the south the earth "loves the earth so much that man longs to taste it, and sometimes does ". She even rejected southern black religious traditions as a college student because she saw them in part. as her mind is the "palliative of the white man," she values it in a different way because she is people "suddenly turned into something simple and noble", "anti-inflammatory agent". Walker's ambivalence, therefore, is a rich and complex way of seeing, the way she sees her southern background, which also hinders him simply to romanticize the south or to make it look overly simplistic frustration and protest. What can Ambivalence or Grange Copeland call "Two-Headed" (Third Life 129) allows Walker to tell the whole truth about her Experience in the South. Avoiding the "blindness" created by her awareness of the injustices done to blacks in the South, she is able to draw "a great deal of positive material" from her outwardly "'underprivileged (In Search 20) background. In fact, she emphasizes her status as a southern black writer gives it special advantages: No one wanted a better inheritance than this in the South, a black writer was bequeathed, for mercy the earth, beyond our knowledge of evil to humanity, and adherence to a sense of justice. We also inherit a great responsibility, for we have only to give a voice of bitter bitterness for centuries hatred, as well as compassion and supportive compassion. (In.) 21) Walker's feeling of being both a black and a southern writer, then, gives him the opportunity to participate in literary traditions that include a wealth of worldviews It is lost in the mainstream of American literature. In "Save life belongs to you: The importance of models in an artist's life, she says expresses concern for the general pessimism of modern American literature [22-26]. In her view, twentieth-century Americans were "deeply saddened by defeat." literature because "American writers tended to finish themselves and their books the lives of the heroes, as if there was no better being to fight. " But because the southern black experience is based on both "struggle" and "some" the great freedom that results from such a struggle, the black writer is able to do so Overcome the frustration that pervades modern literature. That is why African-American writers participate in literary traditions it is characterized by a clear critique of modern life and its peculiarities the ability to restore human values and thus provide important affirmations give a unique vitality and resonance to black American literature [28-31]. The only work that best represents Walker's strong ambivalence towards the southern life his first novel, the third life of Grange Copeland, a book distinguished by its vitality and resonance.
In conclusion, all of Alice Walker's novels are "racist," sexism, classism, and colorism" and their demands for general equality. Even The color purple, she was recognized by critics and formed Walker a great American writer, the charges in the division are reversed racism and male brutality. Alice, who declared herself a
"revolutionary" author Walker was never intimidated by negative criticism of his controversy offers fiction [32-35]. During her essay collections "In Search of Our Mothers" Lives with gardens and words, and in many interviews she speaks clearly her political and aesthetic views as a "woman" are "faithful to life" and the integrity of both men and women," mine "black women" embracing "the abundance of oppression" and the struggle " and ultimately for" human life.
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