Walker, Alice: *1944

Meridian, 1976 - Information about the Book

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      The novel takes a complicated look at black-white and black-black relations. It seems inadequate in this novel either to see people solely in terms of race or solely in terms of individual personalities. A large section of the novel deals with a marriage between a white woman and a black man. Walker seems to support an ethics based on personal interaction more than on universal rules.
      Moore, Pamela and Coulehan, Jack
      Excerpted, with permission, from the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database at New York University School of Medicine, © New York University.
    • Meridian by Marge Piercy, New York Times, May 23, 1976.