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    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"
    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"
    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"
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    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"

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    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535840002
    A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland"

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      A Study Guide for Alice Walker's "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" - Gale

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      The Third Life of Grange Copeland

      Alice Walker

      1970

      Introduction

      The Third Life of Grange Copeland is the first novel of one of America's most prominent contemporary authors. Published in 1970, when Alice Walker was twenty-six years old, the novel follows the lives of three generations of one African American family in the South, from 1920 to the mid-1960s. The title refers to the three stages in the life of Grange Copeland, who begins as a sharecropper in Georgia, moves to New York to improve his lot, and then returns to the South for his third life, in which he forms a close and loving relationship with his granddaughter Ruth. This redeems him in some measure from the failures of his first life, in which he abused and neglected his wife and son. In its exploration of concepts such as black masculinity, African American gender relations, the nature of racist oppression, and the hopes created by the civil rights movement, The Third Life of Grange Copeland is a thoughtful and engaging novel that remains as relevant in the 2010s as it was at its first publication.

      Readers should be cautioned that the novel does contain some violent scenes of domestic abuse.

      Author Biography

      Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the last of eight children born to Willie Lee Walker and Millie Lou Grant Walker. Her father was a sharecropper, and her mother worked as a maid. In 1961, Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, on a scholarship. She transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1963 and graduated from there in 1966. In the same year, she met Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They married in 1967 and moved to Jackson, Mississippi, at a time when interracial marriages were rare. Two years later their child, Rebecca, was born. The marriage ended in divorce in 1976.

      Walker's first published short story appeared in 1967, as did her first published essay. In 1968, her first book of poems, Once, was published. That year she became writer-in-residence at Jackson State College in Mississippi. In 1970, her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, was published and won her national acclaim. The following year she accepted a fellowship at Radcliffe College of Harvard University. Since then Walker has had a distinguished

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