The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

426 Pages·2010·2.24 MB·English

by  Alice Walker

Table of Contents

ALSO BY ALICE WALKER
Title Page
Acknowledgments
CHRONOLOGY
The World Has Changed
Introduction

Chapter 1 - Interview with John O’Brien from Interviews with
Black Writers (1973)

Chapter 2 - Interview with Claudia Tate from Black Women
Writers at Work (1983)

Chapter 3 - “Moving Towards Coexistence”: An Interview with
Ellen Bring from ...

Chapter 4 - “Writing to Save My Life”: An Interview with
Claudia Dreifus from ...

Chapter 5 - “Alice Walker’s Appeal”: An Interview with Paula
Giddings from ...

Chapter 6 - “Giving Birth, Finding For : Where Our Books
Come From”: Alice ...

Chapter 7 - “The Richness of the Very Ordinary Stuff”: A
Conversation with ...

Chapter 8 - “My Life as Myself”: A Conversation with Tami
Simon from Sounds ...
Chapter 9 - A Conversation with Howard Zinn at City Arts &
Lectures (1996)

Chapter 10 - “The World Is Made of Stories”: A Conversation
with Justine Toms ...

Chapter 11 - “On Finding Your Bliss”: Interview with Evelyn C.
White from Ms. (1998)

Chapter 12 - “On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of
Joy”: Alice ...

Chapter 13 - “I Know What the Earth Says”: Interview with
William R. Ferris ...
ON WOMEN’S LIVES
ON ENCOUNTERING ZORA NEALE HURSTON
ON CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS
ON CHILDHOOD MEMORY
ON HAVING A CHILD
ON REVISION IN HER WORK
ON LITERARY INFLUENCES
ON CHOOSING THE WRITING LIFE
ON THE SOUTHERN LABEL
ON ZORA AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ON BELIEVING IN VOODOO
ABOUT THE BLUES AND B.B. KING

Chapter 14 - Alice Walker and Margo Jefferson: A Conversation
from LIVE from ...

Chapter 15 - “Outlaw, Renegade, Rebel, Pagan”: Interview with
Amy Goodman ...

Chapter 16 - Alice Walker on Fidel Castro with George
Galloway from Fidel ...
Chapter 17 - A Conversation with Marianne Schnall from
feminist.com (2006)

Chapter 18 - A Conversation with David Swick from Shambhala
Sun (2006)

Chapter 19 - On Raising Chickens: A Conversation with
Rudolph P. Byrd (2009)
ON THE WORLD HAS CHANGED
ON WANDERING AND MEDITATION
DHARAMSHALA AND GAZA
ON INFLUENTIAL BOOKS
ON THE QUESTION OF GENRE
ON CREATING CHARACTERS
YOUR PREOCCUPATIONS AS AN ARTIST
ON BLACK WOMEN WRITERS: THE SISTERHOOD
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMANISM AND
FEMINISM
ON DEVELOPING A PRACTICE
ON WWW.ALICEWALKERSGARDEN.COM
“MY ARCHIVE CAN REST WITH JOY IN THE COMPANY IT
KEEPS”
ON CARL JUNG’S THE RED BOOK
ON THE COLOR PURPLE
ON RAISING CHICKENS

NOTES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF PEOPLE AND WORKS
Copyright Page
ALSO BY ALICE WALKER
Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism
By the Light of My Father’s Smile: A Novel
The Color Purple
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Temple of My Familiar
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to express my gratitude to Alice Walker for the
great privilege and pleasure of collaborating with her in
bringing The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice
Walker to publication. From conception to publication, Ms.
Walker was generous with her time and open to suggestions,
such as they were, from this editor.
Emory University is privileged to serve as the custodian of
the Alice Walker archive, which opened to the public in 2009.
At Emory, we happily bear the privileges and responsibilities of
custodianship of this national treasure. These privileges and
responsibilities are shared by many across Emory University, in
particular James W. Wagner, President; Earl Lewis, Provost
and Vice President for Academic Affairs; and Rick Luce, Vice
Provost for University Libraries.
The World Has Changed is the first of many books that will
emerge from the Walker archive. In preparing this book for
publication, I wish to thank my colleagues in the Manuscript,
Archive, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) of the Robert W.
Woodruff Library, in particular Randall Burkett, Teresa Burke,
Naomi L. Nelson, Elizabeth Russey, and Julie Delliquanti,
Director of the Schatten Gallery.
I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the contributions
of Michael Hall, doctoral student in the Graduate Institute in
the Liberal Arts at Emory University, who served as my
research assistant in the editing of this volume.
I wish to acknowledge the contributions and colleagueship of
Beverly Guy Sheftall, Howard Zinn, Wendy Weil, Priyanka
Jacob, and the very able Sarah Fan and Marc Favreau of The
New Press.
I also wish to record grateful acknowledgment to those who
have given permission to reprint the following conversations
and interviews. Every effort has been made to contact all rights
holders of reprinted material in The World Has Changed. If