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Alice Walker’s Colors of Identity
Codruţa Mirela Stănişoară
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2016.09.001
The Faculty of Letters Dr. Tr. Severin, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
The paper traces back women like Celie, Shug, Sofia or Nettie engaged in journeys of self-discovery and development, ones that follow predicted feminist patterns, who try to get free from any dominance, either be it male, social or cultural. The colour purple signifies a metaphysical, social and personal rebirth reflected into different shades by their inner self. The social oppression for black women in their quest for freedom is the main theme of Walker’s novel The Color Purple, written in the epistolary technique of Samuel Richardson’s in the XVIIIth century English novel. In our attempt to analyse the theme and the female characters of the novel we are also trying to cross a bridge from the slave woman of the past belonging to a completely different culture and race to the contemporary paradigm of the liberated woman. The movement in time encompasses possible similitudes and differences.
black women, identity, quest, letters, cultures
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