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Alice Walkerâs The Color Purple
Series: - Dialogue, Volume: 5
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Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple is a tale of personal empowerment which opens with a protagonist Celie who is at the bottom of America's social caste. A poor, black, ugly and uneducated female in the America's Jim Crow South in the first half of the 20th century, she is the victim of constant rape, violence and misogynistic verbal abuse. Celie cannot conceive of an escape from her present condition, and so she learns to be passive and unemotional. But The Color Purple eventually demonstrates how Celie learns to fight back and how she discovers her true sexuality and her unique voice. By the end of the novel, Celie is an empowered, financially-independent entrepreneur/landowner, one who speaks her mind and realizes the desirability of black femaleness while creating a safe space for herself and those she loves. Through a journey of literary criticism, Dialogue: Alice Walker's The Color Purple follows Celie's transformation from victim to hero. Each scholarly essay becomes a step of the journey that paves the way for the development of self and sexual awareness, the beginnings of religious transformation and the creation of nurturing places like home and community.
General Editorâs Preface
Introduction: To follow the Heroâs Journey
Rendering the (Womanist) Hero
Brenda R. SMITH: We Need a Hero: African American Female Bildungsromane and Celieâs Journey to Heroic Female Selfhood in Alice Walkerâs The Color Purple
Tracy L. BEALER: Making Hurstonâs Heroine Her Own: Love and Womanist Resistance in The Color Purple
Raphaël LAMBERT: Alice Walkerâs The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale
Theology of Liberation
Patricia ANDUJO: Rendering the African-American Womanâs God through The Color Purple
Marlon Rachquel MOORE: God is (a) Pussy: The Pleasure Principle and Homo-Spirituality in Shugâs Blueswoman Theology
Dear God . . . Dear Peoples . . . Dear Everything
R. Erin HUSKEY: Witnessing and Testifying: Transformed Language and Selves in The Color Purple
Courtney GEORGE: âMy Man Treats Me Like a Slaveâ: The Triumph of Womanist Blues over Blues Violence in Alice Walkerâs The Color Purple
Robin E. FIELD: Alice Walkerâs Revisionary Politics of Rape
Uplabdhi SANGWAN: Significance of Sisterhood and Lesbianism in Fiction of Women of Color
The Spirit of Space
Danielle RUSSELL: Homeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in The Color Purple
Turgay BAYINDIR: A House of Her Own: Alice Walkerâs Readjustment of Virginia Woolfâs A Room of Oneâs Own in The Color Purple
Kathryn EDNEY: Adapting and Integrating: The Color Purple as Broadway Musical
The Classic Beneath the Polemic
Apryl DENNY: Alice Walkerâs Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardsonâs Pamela in The Color Purple
Ping ZHOU: Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple
Essay Abstracts
About the Authors
Index
Introduction: To follow the Heroâs Journey
Rendering the (Womanist) Hero
Brenda R. SMITH: We Need a Hero: African American Female Bildungsromane and Celieâs Journey to Heroic Female Selfhood in Alice Walkerâs The Color Purple
Tracy L. BEALER: Making Hurstonâs Heroine Her Own: Love and Womanist Resistance in The Color Purple
Raphaël LAMBERT: Alice Walkerâs The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale
Theology of Liberation
Patricia ANDUJO: Rendering the African-American Womanâs God through The Color Purple
Marlon Rachquel MOORE: God is (a) Pussy: The Pleasure Principle and Homo-Spirituality in Shugâs Blueswoman Theology
Dear God . . . Dear Peoples . . . Dear Everything
R. Erin HUSKEY: Witnessing and Testifying: Transformed Language and Selves in The Color Purple
Courtney GEORGE: âMy Man Treats Me Like a Slaveâ: The Triumph of Womanist Blues over Blues Violence in Alice Walkerâs The Color Purple
Robin E. FIELD: Alice Walkerâs Revisionary Politics of Rape
Uplabdhi SANGWAN: Significance of Sisterhood and Lesbianism in Fiction of Women of Color
The Spirit of Space
Danielle RUSSELL: Homeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in The Color Purple
Turgay BAYINDIR: A House of Her Own: Alice Walkerâs Readjustment of Virginia Woolfâs A Room of Oneâs Own in The Color Purple
Kathryn EDNEY: Adapting and Integrating: The Color Purple as Broadway Musical
The Classic Beneath the Polemic
Apryl DENNY: Alice Walkerâs Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardsonâs Pamela in The Color Purple
Ping ZHOU: Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple
Essay Abstracts
About the Authors
Index