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From: New Republic[(review date 27 January 1986) In the following review, Kauffmann views The Color Purple as a significant advancement in the portrayal and participation of African Americans in contemporary film.] The history of black...
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From: The Hollins CriticReferring to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Alice Walker asserts, “There is no book more important to me than this one.” Added to that statement of memorial is a poem composed by Walker...
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From: Journal of Narrative Technique[(essay date fall 1986) In the following essay, Tavormina analyzes the parallels between clothing and the perception of the characters in The Color Purple, noting how Walker's characters use sewing to create a sense of...
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From: Midwest Quarterly[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Hankinson discusses how the development of Celie's religious beliefs in The Color Purple are instrumental in and indicative of her spiritual growth.] Alice Walker's The...
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From: Black American Literature Forum[In the following excerpt, Harris evaluates The Color Purple, stating of the work: “To complain about the novel is to commit treason against black women writers, yet there is much in it that deserves complaint....”]...
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From: Black American Literature Forum[(essay date Winter 1986) In the following essay, Royster discusses the complicated relationship between Walker and her audience and asserts that Walker's female protagonists are representations of Walker's perceptions...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date spring 1991) In the following essay, Proudfit refutes the critical opinion that Celie's emotional development and actions in The Color Purple are unlikely literary contrivances, and uses psychoanalytic...
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From: Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Martins discusses how Anglo- and African American literature have influenced each other, focusing on Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Lorraine...
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From: Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Wilentz discusses Walker’s preservation of African culture and rural Southern Black life in The Color Purple (1982), specifically the importance of the extended family and the...
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From: Southern Quarterly[(essay date fall 2008) In the following essay, Piacentino discusses the ideas of family and homecoming in Walker's short story "Kindred Spirits."] One of the most endearing scenes in contemporary southern literature...
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From: The African American Short Story, 1970-1990: A Collection of Critical Essays[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Borgmeier offers a close reading of the short story “Everyday Use,” focusing on the tale’s “restrained” quality, Walker’s characterization of maternal figures, and her use of...
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From: Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Łobodziec considers Walker’s “exploration of African-American cultural duality” in the novels.] Introduction The exploration of African-American cultural duality has been an...
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From: Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Green analyzes Danticat’s use of “African diasporic techniques and common themes,” focusing on how this approach “challenges readers to expand their idea of African American or...
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From: MELUS[(essay date fall-winter 2000) In the following essay, Cutter compares and contrasts the character of Celie from The Color Purple with the character of Philomela from Ovid's Metamorphoses, noting the similarities between...
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From: Literature and Homosexuality[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Fraile-Marcos discusses Alice Walker's The Color Purple in the context of the idea of "Womanism"--one which connects the African American female community.] If in the United...
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From: African American Review[(essay date spring 1995) In the following essay, Selzer discusses Walker's confrontation of race relations and class distinctions through the underlying text in The Color Purple.] An important juncture in Alice...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 11. )Over three decades of continuous productivity and acclaim, Alice Walker has earned a place as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. She has published six novels, two collections of short...
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From:Modern American Women WritersTHE THEMATIC POWER and stylistic versatility of Alice Walker's rather voluminous canon · four novels, two collections of short stories, two volumes of prose, five books of poetry, and numerous essays · is indeed...
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From: The Christian Science Monitor[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Cornish provides an overview of Walker's works, discussing her role as the most prominent woman writer in the United States at the time.] Alice Walker is currently our most...
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From:Short Stories for Students[Piedmont-Marton is a professor of English and the coordinator of the writing center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following essay, she discusses the quilting metaphor in “Everyday Use.”] Alice Walker's...