Celie’s Journey from Trial and Tribulation to Triumph in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 10
Abstract
Alice Walker is an Afro American poet, novelist, short story writer, critic, essayist whose focus has been to delve deep into the lives of black women. She is “committed to exploring the oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties and the triumphs of black women.”(O’Brien 192).Awarded Pulitzer prize for fiction and National Books award for The Color Purple(1982) in 1983 hers is a self–conscious and complex contribution to contemporary writing that can be approached from multiple perspectives. This paper intends a critical analysis of The Color Purple, a novel about womanhood and the coming to consciousness of spirit, focus is also on the exploration of notion of self after the heroine goes through excruciating trial and tribulation to eventually locate herself and make her presence felt. The protagonist Celie is lovable, believable, downtrodden, semiliterate, rural black woman subjected to sexual abuse by her step father and ruthless husband. The novel narrates triumph of her pure will over dehumanising oppressive forces that seemed omnipotent and irresistible. The oppressor here is not a white master but black male over female.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr Shalini Sharma
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP399622
- DOI -
- Views 45
- Downloads 0
Post-Yugoslav Cinema and Politics: Films, Lies and Video Tape
The article discusses politics of post-Yugoslav cinema in its extra-cinematic domain. Development of cinematography in post-Yugoslav states has often drawn on common cultural connections. Plurality of identities, culture...
Performance of the Liminal: A Critical Analysis of the Experience of Liminal in PerumalMurugan’sOne Part Woman
The inbetweenness attributed to liminal that negates the binaries is made evident through the homogenising principles that are part of the experience of the ritualistic liminal. This forms the centre of analysis of the p...
Conceptions and Reasonings of Beninese Learners in Solving Physics Problems Involving the Object "Acceleration" in the Concept of "Rapidity"
In this work, we describe the modes of reasoning of the learners in order to resolve two types of problems and involving the object "acceleration" in a scientific context and the object "rapidity" in an empirical context...
The Quran on Marriage: Indonesian Interpreters Perspectives on Marriage of Muslim with Polytheist
The works of archipelago interpreters mostly ignored by the researcher, whereas their interpretation consist of wisdom that can serve as a guideline for contemporary Muslim society. Among the subjects of study in their w...
About Strongmen and Strong Institutions in Africa: Wade, Compaoré and Mugabe’s Administrations In The Light Of Mandela’s Achievements
One of the reasons for the almost permanent underdevelopment status of the African continent is the weakness of the political institutions in its different countries. The situation is also worsened by the bad management...