The Color Purple Is a 1982 Epistolary Novel By American Author Alice Walker Which Won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. Taking Place Mostly In Georgia, the Story Focuses on the Life of African-American Women In the Southern United States In the 1930S, Addressing Numerous Issues Including Their Exceedingly Low Position In American Social Culture.
The Color Purple Unfolds the Panorama of Black Female Reality of the Neo-Slavery Period That Takes Shape In the Smithy of Black Male Brutality Towards Black Females, Recialpatriarchal Oppression and Misogynist Assumptions. the Novel Focuses on the Process of the Self-Discovery of an Unlettered Black Southern Woman. It Traces the Gradual Growth of Her Radicalization and Empowerment Through Female Bonding, Education and Self-Employment. the Black Feminist Analysis Reveals How Black Female Radicalism, Embracing of Womanhood, Exploration of Black Heritage and Resultant Self-Determination Bring to Fruition Celie’S Quest For Identity and History.
Celie Succeeds In Her Quest For Identity and History By Developing an Understanding of Her Roots and Heritage and Acquiring the Awareness That She Has a Right to Happiness, Passion, Creativity and Emotional Fulfillment. to Exercise Her Rights As an Individual, Celie Learns to Resist the Advances of Black Men Who Hinder Her Self-Fulfillment. Alice Walker Has Been Vehemently Criticized Within the African-American Community For Her Portrayal of Black Men As Abusers and Rapists. In the Color Purple, ...