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- Title
CONTINUITY OF WOMANIST ETHOS: INTERTEXTUALITY IN SELECT NOVELS OF ALICE WALKER.
- Authors
Ruhina, Jesmin U. H.
- Abstract
This study uses the relational content analysis method and theories of intertextuality, intersectionality, and womanism to explore the continuity of womanist ethos in select novels of the African-American novelist Alice Walker. It attempts to explore Walker's use of womanism as an intertextual trope in The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982), The Temple of My Familiar (1989) and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992); Walker's portrayal of Celie-Shug as a perfect womanist couple in Color Purple and their reappearance in Temple as mother trees; foremothers as role models in Third Life and Temple; Walker's telling and retelling of Tashi's life-long suffering from female genital mutilation (FGM) in Color Purple, Temple, and Possessing - the subject of this paper.
- Subjects
WALKER, Alice, 1944-; INTERTEXTUALITY; INTERTEXTUAL analysis; FEMALE genital mutilation; CONTINUITY; CONTENT analysis
- Publication
University of Bucharest Review: Literary & Cultural Studies Series, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
2069-8658
- Publication type
Article