- African American college students, African American college students in fiction, African American women, African American women in fiction
Set in the 1960s and 1970s, Meridian centers on Meridian Hill, a student at the fictitious Saxon College, who becomes active in the Civil Rights Movement. She becomes romantically involved with another activist, Truman Held.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Alice Walker
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 228
- Publisher
- Washington Square Press, ABC-CLIO, Harcourt
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781557360199
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“Truman Held drove slowly into the small town of Chicokema as the two black men who worked at the station where he stopped for gas were breaking for lunch.”
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