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.
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Dr Shalini Sharma
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