A Journey from Slavery to Liberty in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Keywords:
Activist, uneducated, feminist, struggle, empowerment, patriarchal, sexual oppression, psychologicallyAbstract
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist and an activist. Her novel, The Color Purple won Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award in 1983. The Color Purple is a novel about a fourteen year’s old uneducated woman's struggle for empowerment. The novel is set in a highly patriarchal society, where woman being oppressed economically, socially and psychologically. It is not just a feminist novel conventional to the analysis of sexual oppression. It is about the rebirth of self and establishment of female identity.
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05-09-2018
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M. Janakidevi. (2018). A Journey from Slavery to Liberty in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. TJELLS | The Journal for English Language and Literary Studies, 8(3), 3. Retrieved from https://brbs.tjells.com/index.php/tjells/article/view/248
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