[Clive]
It’s the turn of Jackie Danicki, American in London, libertarian blogger and all-round live-wire, who also finds time to run sites devoted to food, health and beauty. A new media consultant, she knows where all the bodies are buried in Silicon Valley:
Having rediscovered "The Color Purple", I struggled to reconcile the tale of individual struggle and triumph with the politics of author Alice Walker. How could a writer who created such harrowing accounts of suffering under the white racist and black patriarchal societies of the southern US proceed to count Fidel Castro as a friend and decry the "toxic culture" of globalization? How could a writer whose work celebrates the liberation of women feel such disgust for the very movement which is lifting so many African people out of poverty?
I know, I know: one should separate a writer’s politics from her work. Fortunately, the quality of "The Color Purple" is such that I was largely able to do just that for the duration of the story. It is staggering, captivating, and a complete contradiction.
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