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- Title
BLACK FEMALE WRITERS' PERSPECTIVE ON RELIGION: ALICE WALKER AND CALIXTHE BEYALA.
- Authors
Maïnimo, Wirba Ibrahim
- Abstract
The article examines how religious institutions are portrayed in the fiction of black women writers Calixthe Beyala and Alice Walker and asserts the literary subversion practised by the writers regarding traditional religious beliefs. Celie, the heroine in Walker's novel "The Color Purple," views God as a patriarchal figure. The author contends that religious issues are seen from a folkloric point in the novels of Beyala. The priestess of Wuel, a character from one of Beyala's novels, expresses hate towards God. Both women challenge the literary status quo by forming a new canon within the canon of black literature.
- Subjects
RELIGION in literature; BEYALA, Calixthe; WALKER, Alice, 1944-; RELIGIOUS institutions; BELIEF &; doubt in literature; RELIGION; BELIEF &; doubt; WOMEN authors; COLOR Purple, The (Book : Walker); FOLKLORE in literature
- Publication
Journal of Third World Studies, 2002, Vol 19, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
8755-3449
- Publication type
Article