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13 de may. de 2024 · Walker’s later fiction includes The Temple of My Familiar, an ambitious examination of racial and sexual tensions (1989); Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), a narrative centered on female genital mutilation; By the Light of My Father’s Smile (1998), the story of a family of anthropologists posing as Christian missionaries in ...
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- A writer and feminist, Alice Walker is especially known for novels, poems, and short stories that offer great insight into African American culture...
- Alice Walker was born in 1944, the eighth child of African American sharecroppers. She was accidentally blinded in one eye, so her mother gave her...
- Alice Walker’s most famous work is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple (1982), which depicts the growing up and self-realization of a...
15 de may. de 2024 · The Temple of My Familiar — Walker, Alice, 1944- — A visionary cast of characters weaves together past and present in an intricate tapestry of tales. The resulting fabric tells the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is unforeseen.
30 de may. de 2024 · Regarding “The Temple of My Familiar,” or how, following my dreams, I came to understand that the “temple” of my own familiar (i.e., spirit) is freedom. Published in 1989, I am currently reading this book from which this post borrows its title.
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27 de may. de 2024 · Sagrada Família, Roman Catholic minor basilica in Barcelona , Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí. Begun in 1882 and still unfinished in the first quarter of the 21st century, the Sagrada Família, notable for its tactile organic form, is one of Barcelona’s most famous landmarks.
Hace 3 días · The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity.
Hace 1 día · Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. [2] [3] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.
