Alice Walkers The Color Purple Exploring of the Idea of Women Empowering Women
Abstract
The following paper is an effort to position the legroom occupied and shared by black women in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. The novel is imbued with Walker’s theory of Womanism which focuses on connectivity between women and how women use this connectivity amongst them in order to deal with the oppressive forces of the society that is both racist and sexist.
Keywords
Empowerment; black female self; fragmented identity; sisterhood; womanism
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