The book Jubilee

Introduction

Walker first profited critical vigilance in the 1940s with the publication of For My People. She became recognized as a powerful voice for African-American sensibilities; although, she all but went away from reviewers' vigilance for a number of years until Jubilee appeared. Although not habitually encompassed in the canon of African-American novels of the 1960s and 1970s, Jubilee obtained a number of affirmative reviews. Some detractors, although, faulted Walker for the too-obvious note of Christian forgiveness which her protagonist displayed. Others took a more laudatory pitch, pointing out Walker's clever incorporation of the history, mythology, and linguistic patterns of very dark Americans in the novel.

 

Discussion

Walker as a creative survivor is furthermore apparent in the detail that the task itself is a way to maintain the author's own history and that of her family. From the starting, the novel was a labor of love for Walker and her inspiration to compose it had more to manage with her love for her family than anything else. "Most of my life I have been engaged with composing this story about my great-grandmother, and even if Jubilee were not ever advised a creative or financial achievement I would still be joyous just to have completed it" (Walker 50). The story of the novel was intensely individual, and Walker accepted it was her obligation to maintain this oral history that had been passed down from her great-grandmother

Walker's verse, particularly For My People, has been singled out as agent of the voice of persons, particularly as it reflects the rhetorical power of generations of African Americans. Her biography of Wright was more contentious, with some detractors calling it a helpful supplement to Wright scholarship and other ones finding it biased and rather mystifying in its psychological approach. In general, Walker has kept her place ...