{"title":"Valerie Boyd","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice Walker (Geórgia\/EUA, 1944) é mulher negra, celebrada escritora, poeta e ativista. Sua produção literária inclui romances, coletâneas de contos, livros infantis, ensaios e poemas. Em 1983, venceu o Prêmio Pulitzer de ficção e o American Book Award por \u003cem\u003eA cor púrpura\u003c\/em\u003e, publicado pela Editora José Olympio, que também edita no Brasil seus romances \u003cem\u003eA terceira vida de Grange Copeland, Meridian, O segredo da alegria\u003c\/em\u003e e o livro infantil\u003cem\u003e Gente legal está em todo lugar\u003c\/em\u003e. Este é o seu primeiro livro pela Editora Rosa dos Tempos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValerie Boyd (Geórgia\/EUA, 1963–2022) foi uma mulher negra, autora da premiada biografia \u003cem\u003eWrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston\u003c\/em\u003e. Importante figura do jornalismo estadunidense, foi responsável pela criação do programa de mestrado em narrativa de não ficção na Universidade da Geórgia e grande incentivadora de jovens escritores negras e negros. Próxima de Alice Walker, recebeu a permissão de organizar e editar os diários da autora, processo que levou mais de oito anos de intenso estudo. O resultado é o histórico livro Colhendo flores sob incêndios.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"colhendo-flores-sob-incendios-os-diarios-de-alice-walker","title":"Picking Flowers Under Fire: The Diaries of Alice Walker","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBeyond her work, Alice Walker has always been at the center of debates and events in modern society. In this new book, discover the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/em\u003e through her personal writings \u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAlice Walker is one of the most important figures of our time. A Black woman born into a large, low-income family in the Southern United States, she managed—through effort, talent, and the support of those who believed in the power of her voice—to achieve worldwide recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The need to write is like thirst, says Walker, who began recording ideas, perceptions, and feelings in diaries at age 18 and has never stopped. Since then, her diary confessions have totaled more than 65 volumes and trace what makes a woman who she is—as noted by Valerie Boyd, a professor, writer, and literary critic who spent nearly a decade organizing the entries from her various notebooks. The result is a passionate, intimate, and poetic record of the development of a unique and irreproachable artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBesides being a celebrated author, Walker was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, marching alongside Martin Luther King Jr.; she married a Jewish lawyer, defying laws against interracial marriage; she chose to have an early abortion; years later, she gave birth to her daughter while writing her first novel; she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; she defied conventions by coming out as bisexual; and she denounced female genital mutilation practices. Amidst a vibrant and well-known public life, it is now possible to glimpse her innermost being: her family, her loves, her friendships, her financial problems, and her spiritual anguish, which form the layers of the individual and give her a sense of humanity and identification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Alice Walker has faced some of the most thorny events of the 20th century in the United States. […] Now she shares her diaries with us, offering readers a window into her life.” — \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e“Decades of journal writing by the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/em\u003e , organized for the first time, explores the development of her thoughts and feelings as a writer, a woman, an African-American, and a citizen of the world.” — \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Alice Walker knew that her words, even the most diaristic, might well be intended for the public, and she knew this even before any text was published. […] The pages of these diaries record everything from epiphanies to the irritations of everyday life, and map, for an intimate reader already dimly aware, the progress of a literary pilgrim. Pain, joy, waves of depression, restlessness, commitment, even disaffection—all are material. And this is what fuels the writing and sustains the reading. —The \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176291680508,"sku":"9786589828204","price":149.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/63db862b2bc9de57d3d1e7e918ccf45f_dd1dacbb-5a4e-48a0-9652-d34770870a51.jpg?v=1778815264"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/valerie-boyd.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}