User:Za'NettaS/Pearl Cleage

In an interview for Marita Golden's book "The Word: Black Writers Talk about the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing", Cleage mentions her access to an abundance of books written by black people as a factor in her love for reading and writing. Within the interview, Cleage talks about her family expressing the idea that as a writer, she must write about the struggle for black people. She did not find this thought limiting or oppressive. Other inspirations came from her being the owner of a book store and cultural center called "The Shrine of the Black Madonna". At the book store artists from the Black Arts Movement would meet. Pearl was inspired by the constant conversations about blackness and was comfortable in her place within the topic.

Throughout Cleage's work, she has stated her desire to present African American women as they navigate the world daily. An example of this in her work is discussed in In Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama by Lisa Anderson. Anderson talks about Cleage's portrayal of African American women in her play Flyin West, where Cleage shows formerly enslaved African American women creating a community and working to remain free. 65. Cleage also states that black women in America are her main audience, but she welcomes all audiences to her work.

To personal life, add information about her grandchildren, her moving to Atlanta when she was 20 after marrying her husband, and her work with a local Atlanta politician

Citations

Golden, Marita. The Word: Black Writers Talk about the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing: Interviews. Broadway Paperbacks, 2011.

Neave, Lucy (2017-05-03). "Entering writers' rooms: reading interviews with novelists". New Writing. 14 (3): 455–464. doi:10.1080/14790726.2017.1317276. ISSN 1479-0726.

alfatovic, Mary.” .", Encyclopedia.com, 7 Nov. 2019, https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/education-biographies/pearl-cleage.

Anderson, Lisa M. Black Feminism in Conte

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/pearl-cleage-b-1948 Rebecca. I Know What the Red Clay Looks like: the Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers. Carol Southern Books, 1994.

"What We Know about Bullying in Secondary Schools", Bullying in Secondary Schools: What it Looks Like and How to Manage it Bullying in secondary schools: What it looks like and how to manage it, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 2–26, ISBN 978-0-7619-4193-4, retrieved 2019-12-02