[LESBIANISM IN THE COLOR PURPLE] Celie and Shug Avery developed a strong female bonding between themselves. The male in the novel are epitome of patriarchy and they desire more of a master-slave relationship rather than a husband-wife relationship. Celie yearned for love and so the other black women like Sofia, who wanted love rather than … Read more
SIGNIFICANCE OF FEMALE BONDING IN CELIE’S EMANCIPATION PROCESS IN ALICE WALKER’S THE COLOR PURPLE The Color Purple is a revolutionary black female authored text written by Alice Walker in 1982. In this novel, Walker explores the themes of gender discrimination, racial discrimination, sexism and domestic violence. The novel prominently portrays the struggle of black women … Read more
[SLAVERY IN THE COLOR PURPLE] [RACIAL INTOLERANCE IN THE COLOR PUPLE] The novel The Color Purple by Pulitzer Prize winner Afro-American writer Alice Walker, is an exploration in survival and growth of black women in America in a racist society. In this novel, Walker has clearly shown that a black woman is doubly jeopardized and … Read more
NARRATIVE STYLE AND STRUCTURE The narrative style and structure of The Color Purple is selected in such a manner so as to facilitate Celie’s growth into a self-possessed woman. The Black folk English is employed in order to make Celie’s language as authentic as possible given the context of its early twentieth century period and … Read more
WOMANISM / WALKER’S WOMANIST AESTHETIC Alice Walker had coined the term womanist in the preface to her book In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. The word ‘womanish’ is associated with audacious, willful behaviour. In The Color Purple, Sofia and Shug are clearly womanist characters for there is very little traditional or conservative about … Read more
THE COLOUR PURPLE AS A FEMINIST TEXT Alice Walker commented in one of her interviews that Black woman has a different ‘angle’ of looking at things. Elaborating her perspective, she said, Black women ‘see things from a different point of view’. Black women, have to look out and through all those people who have traditionally … Read more
TITLE In an interview to Bill Moyers, Alice Walker tried to justify the title of her novel. She said that The Color Purple signified her love for her ancestors. The title, according to Walker, did not only conjure up an image of a field of sunflowers (called color purples) it is meant to symbolise her … Read more