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- Title
FEMINISTIC AND RACIAL CONCERNS IN ALICE WALKER'S "THE COLOR PURPLE".
- Authors
Thakur, Ram Krishan; Pathak, Deepika
- Abstract
In the no vel The Color Purple, A lice Walker has carried out a vivid portrait of her views regarding the hardships, bitterness subjugation and exploitation that African American women had to face in the early 1900's. Walker's story is fraught with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, the oppression of women, physical abuse, and prejudice. Her novel also explores the truth about men and women, blacks and whites. The novel is presented in an epistolary form and demonstrates the metamorphosis of a weak, black, mentally, physicallyandspirituallyabusedblackgirlinto anindependent strongwoman.
- Subjects
COLOR Purple, The (Book : Walker); WALKER, Alice, 1944-; LITERARY criticism; AFRICAN American women in literature; FEMINISM in literature; RACISM in literature
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 3, p147
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism