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Meridian
Title: Meridian
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 255 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Meridian
Meridian is set in the American South during the 1960s and early '70s.
The heroine, Meridian, is a black woman from a southern town. She
marries, has a child, gets a divorce, sends her child away, and ends up
working in a voters' registration campaign, encouraging
African-Americans to register. Meridian is different from her co-workers
in that she interacts with people as individuals, rather than by
stereotyping them. For example, while others lecture black families
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Commentary 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.
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