Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple

2009 ◽  
pp. 287-304
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Color Purple

scholarly journals Domestic Violence and Psychological Oppression in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S4) ◽  
pp. 66-67
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Color Purple

African-American literature is otherwise known as slave narratives. The popular African-American writers are Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass, Alice Walker etc. The Color Purple is a well-known epistolary novel written by Alice Walker in 1983. The novel brought her a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1983. This is a novel about a young fourteen year old black girl. She is tortured physically, emotionally, sexually by her step father and her husband. Later on she develops an intimate relationship with Shug. It has changed her life topsy-turvy. The poor, ugly, innocent, oppressed, inferior woman tremendously changed as a woman of self confident, beautiful and proud human being.

scholarly journals Extolling Blackness: The African Culture in The Color Purple

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Lei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Color Purple

Alice Walker, advocates African cultures in her epistolary novel The Color Purple. Underscoring the fact that quilt-making has an ancient history in the black community and presents the African tradition of folk art and the rich legacy of visual images in African culture, Walker employs the image of quilts and quilt-making to associate with the symbolic meaning of sisterhood, family history and self-creation. Also, she depicts Shug as the most popular character as a blues singer in the novel, to indicate that she acknowledges her mode of thinking that blues as one secular African tradition can deliver its spiritual power to African Americans.

scholarly journals An ecocritical reading of flowers in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Arda Arıkan
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Color Purple

<p>Flowers are one of the most popular motifs in verse as well as in prose. Many critics have noted that nature is at the core of Alice Walker’s epistolary novel <em>The Color Purple</em> (1983) in which depicting or writing about flowers requires special attention. However, in Alice Walker’s <em>The Color Purple</em>, flowers are depicted and written about to convey strong negative emotions as well as positive ones. In this study, how flowers are depicted or written about in the novel is studied through an ecocritical lens. I argue that Walker’s use of flowers provides examples of the vitality of a hopeful existence especially when various flowers mentioned in the novel are considered along with the seasonal changes organically affecting such floral richness. I equally argue that Walker uses flowers to show the change experienced by the major character, Celie. In that sense, Walker’s flowers are in direct coexistence with the major character, Celie. </p>

A Study on Spirituality in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
Dhanalakshmi D ◽  
Govindaraj C
Keyword(s):  
Black Woman ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Spiritual Belief ◽  
Epistolary Novel ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Color Purple

Representation of spirituality belief in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, is distinguishable. Celie has spiritual belief on God too much. She believes that God will rescue her father and husband from the struggle. The Color Purple is an epistolary novel, which means expressing through letter. She initially imagines God as an old white man, something like Dumbledore or Gandalf. But as a black woman who’s been abused by men all her life, Celie eventually begins to rebel against this image of God. She  begins to see God as genderless and raceless, a more universal being who wants humans to enjoy all aspects of life—from nature to sex to the color purple.

Para uma sociolinguística do texto literário traduzido: um olhar sobre ‘The Color Purple’ e sua tradução

Gragoatá ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maristela Cury Sarian
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
Black English ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Color Purple

Este trabalho tem por objetivo estabelecer uma relação entre a tradução e a sociolinguística, a partir da análise da tradução do romance epistolar The Color Purple, da afro-americana Alice Walker, A cor púrpura, realizada por Peg Bodelson, Betúlia Machado e Maria José Silveira, a fim de investigar como a heterogeneidade linguística da obra original, associada, sobretudo, à maior ou menor frequência de uso de inglês padrão e de Black English Vernacular pelas personagens, foi construída na tradução. Nessa análise, verifico quais foram os recursos utilizados na caracterização da linguagem das personagens e como estes podem ser associados aos diferentes graus de escolaridade e de letramento de Celie e Nettie, valendo-me, como instrumental para essa análise, de descrições da variação sociolinguística, das teorias do letramento e dos processos de aquisição de língua escrita.

Making the Invisible Visible: Black Lesbianism in The Color Purple

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Basarabă
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Heterosexual Relationship ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Black Lesbians ◽  
Color Purple ◽  
The Invisible

The paper aims to disclose the factors behind Celie’s preference of transition from an involuntary heterosexual relationship to a homosexual one. I pursue this path due to multiple factors that occur in the novel and which nevertheless lead to Celie’s final homosexual identity. Homosexuality is far too often regarded as a mental illness and people have far too many times misjudged people with other sexual orientation than what the society perceives as “normal”. The findings of my research intend to show that homosexuality implies a variety of psychological, emotional and physical issues and that it is nothing to be ashamed or afraid of. Since racism has always been associated with Black men and sexism with White females, the paper brings the invisible Black lesbians to light.

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