- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Margaret Walker
- Date of Original:
- 1708/2022
- Subject:
- African American women authors
African American authors
African American women novelists
African American novelists
Authors, American
Women authors, American
Novelists, American
Women novelists, American
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Jubilee (1966), the only novel published by poet Margaret Walker, was an influential work. It has been described as a neo-slave narrative.
Photograph of novelist Margaret Walker. She wears a red jacket and is sitting at her desk. She smiles.
Walker's novel Jubilee, the 1966 winner of Houghton Mifflin's Literary Fellowship Award, is one of the first to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from a black and female point of view. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Walker's great-grandmother, Margaret Duggans Ware Brown, who was born a slave in Dawson in Terrell County, Georgia and lived through Reconstruction in southwest Georgia. It is based on stories told to Walker by her maternal grandmother. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jubilee/m-3943/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Modern American Poetry
Image from Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jubilee
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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