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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"The Color Purple"”.
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Oppressed female protagonists and their survival strategies: An ecofeminist perspective in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
The current study draws on the perspective of ecofeminism’s main premise, which states that the patriarchal ideology authorizes the oppression of women and many other marginalized groups, which leads to the actions of the legitimization of the destructions of nature. In both Toni Morrison’s The …
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Possessing the secret of black womanhood : reading African women in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Color Purple, and Warrior Marks
Speaking for or about others has featured consistently in current feminist debates as it is becoming clear that the assumed homogeneity of women within social groups is not realistic. It has become clear that difference can no longer be analysed in terms of race, gender and sexuality alone. Other …
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"'Tis Hard to Dance with One Shoe": The Failure of the Fathers in Walker's <em>The Color Purple</em> and McCourt's <em>Angela's Ashes</em>.
<p>In his story, “The Commitments,” Roddy Doyle identifies the Irish as "the blacks of Europe" (148). This sentiment typifies the oppression of the two cultures. The overwhelmingly oppressive society of the two aforementioned groups creates an atmosphere of failure, particularly for the fathers, …
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Female Agency in Religious Disassembly of Culture: Where Do Women Fit In?
<p>A study of The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy as they relate to cultural disassembly and the relationship to missionaries from Western cultures. Some focus is placed on Alice Walker's views on female genital mutilation and how that was impacted by Christian viewpoints. Theoretical …
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The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker
This study is an examination of the development of the quest motif in Alice Walker's novels, from a male quest in the first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, to the female quests which supersede it in the two later novels, Meridian and The Color Purple. In this analysis, brief reference is …
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The politics of visuality in Beloved and The Colour Purple
The brutal history of slavery in America makes literary engagement with slave experience a potent exercise. Contemporary writers seeking to engage with this history face many difficulties, writing in the wake of the traditional slave narrative which was characterised by limited perspective and …
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Alice Walker’s Womanist Fiction: Tensions and Reconciliations
A theory formulated by Alice Walker, womanism focuses on the unification of men and women with Nature and Earth. This thesis explores womanism with regards to its specific concerns with African American women’s rights, identities, and self-actualisation, and points towards its more overarching …
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Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color
… WOMEN </em></p> <p><em>IN NOVELS BY WRITERS OF COLOR</em></p> <p><em>Abstract: </em></p> <p><em>This thesis explores methods used by the writers of five realist novels, to create oppressive situations for female characters in their work. In writing about these novels, the aim is to see how …
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Critical Exploration of the Neo-Slave Narrative in Selected Walker and Morrison Novels
<p>This study examines Alice Walker’s <em>The Colored Purple</em> and Toni Morrison’s <em>Beloved</em> as Neo-Slave Narratives.<em> </em>These extraordinary authors reveal slave history in their novels. Although these novels deal with neo-slave narratives, they closely identify with history of …
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
The enslavement and persecution of African and Native peoples has been occurring in the U.S. since the 1600s. There have been justifications, explanations and excuses offered as to why one race feels superior over another. Slavery, according to the Abolition Project, refers to "a condition in which …