TY - BOOK ID - 77896163 TI - Fields watered with blood PY - 2001 SN - 0820346985 9780820346984 1306827418 9781306827416 9780820338866 0820338869 0820322547 PB - Athens, GA University of Georgia Press DB - UniCat KW - Women and literature KW - African Americans in literature. KW - African American women in literature. KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Afro-American women in literature KW - History KW - Walker, Margaret, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896163 AB - Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker's literary career. As they discuss Walker's work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker's writing: folklore and prophecy, place and space, history and politics, gender and race. In addition, the contributors remark on how Walker's emphases on spirituality and on dignity in her daily life make themselves felt in her writin ER -