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Major Authors
Alice Walker
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She was born into a family of sharecroppers, and was very shy and reserved as a child after an incident that ended in Walker being shot in the eye with a B.B. gun. She released her emotion through writing. In her writing, Walker drew themes and major points of her writing from major events occurring during the time period. Walker wrote many books centered around African American culture and racism, which were major themes of the postmodern era. Often considered her most famous work, The Color Purple focuses on the life of an abused young African American girl. The Color Purple, which has the theme of not only racism but feminism as well, is a prime example of postmodern work, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Walker was important to postmodernism because of her contribution to the Civil Rights and feminist movements with her works based on these issues.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, and is know world wide as an influential Post Modern writer. She received her first Pulitzer for fiction in 1988 credited by her novel Beloved. Later in 1993 Toni Morrison was credited as the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Morrison’s three most famous novels are The Song of Solomon, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye. Morrison’s works all pertained to the struggles of African American women. Before becoming a main stream author Morrison was still involved with the Post Modern movement by editing books for other writers.The Bluest Eye is a novel about a young girl, Pecola, who prays to God for blue eyes. The novel focuses on the seriousness of racism in America after the Great Depression. Pecola yearns to have blue eyes so that she could live her life without constant conflictions between the race she is and the race she desires to be.
