Alice Walker's The color purple /

Alice Walker's The color purple / / edited by Kheven LaGrone.

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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 c...

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Superior document:Dialogue ; 5
TeilnehmendeR:
LaGrone, Kheven.
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (347 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • We Need a Hero: African American Female Bildungsromane and Celie’s Journey to Heroic Female Selfhood in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple / Brenda R. Smith
  • Making Hurston’s Heroine Her Own: Love and Womanist Resistance in The Color Purple / Tracy L. Bealer
  • Alice Walker’s The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale / Raphaël Lambert
  • Rendering the African-American Woman’s God through The Color Purple / Patricia Andujo
  • God is (a) Pussy: The Pleasure Principle and Homo-Spirituality in Shug’s Blueswoman Theology / Marlon Rachquel Moore
  • Witnessing and Testifying: Transformed Language and Selves in The Color Purple / R. Erin Huskey
  • “My Man Treats Me Like a Slave”: The Triumph of Womanist Blues over Blues Violence in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple / Courtney George
  • Alice Walker’s Revisionary Politics of Rape / Robin E. Field
  • Significance of Sisterhood and Lesbianism in Fiction of Women of Color / Uplabdhi Sangwan
  • Homeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in The Color Purple / Danielle Russell
  • A House of Her Own: Alice Walker’s Readjustment of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in The Color Purple / Turgay Bayindir
  • Adapting and Integrating: The Color Purple as Broadway Musical / Kathryn Edney
  • Alice Walker’s Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in The Color Purple / Apryl Denny
  • Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple / Ping Zhou
  • Essay Abstracts
  • About The Authors
  • Index.

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