scholarly journals Locating Banned Books: A Collection Analysis of Libraries in Arkansas and Tennessee

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Floyce Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
American Library ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Color Purple

No library can make everything available to its patrons. However, libraries should adhere to the American Library Association (ALA) for guidance on what items are banned from the library's collections. Censorship and intellectual freedom have gained attention for how it affects libraries and the restraints it individualized for banned or forbidden items. Difficulties are characterized as formal, composed complaints recorded with a library or school asking for specific materials to be expelled from view because the substance may not be considered appropriate for the users. The purpose of this study is to compare a selected set of previously banned books or challenged titles in the collections of twelve public libraries within two southern states: Arkansas and Tennessee. The titles include: I Know Why the Cage Birds Sings by Maya Angelou; Beloved by Toni Morrison; Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison; and The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

scholarly journals Enfrentar las estructuras de opresión: sumisión, resiliencia y resistencia en Los ojos más azules y El color púrpura.

Sincronía ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (79) ◽  
pp. 345-369
Author(s):  
Ida María Ayala Rodríguez ◽  
◽  
Cristina Amalia Gavilla Lundeg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times ◽  
Color Purple

This paper focuses on and compares several aspects of the novels The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Color Purple by Alice Walker. This analysis is preceded by a brief historical background of the times when the action of the novels take place, necessary to understand the history of racial discrimination and the prejudices that sustain this discrimination to our days. The discursion shows the main female characters reacting towards the different forms of oppression and to the systematic suppression of the necessary conditions for the normal development of their self- esteem as human beings. The self-esteem of some of them is so low that they cannot recover; others rise and are able to recover their lost self-esteem. We conclude that the lives of the characters in The Bluest Eye were influenced by racial, social and patriarchal prejudices, prevented from material advancement, and in some cases, how their expectations for a better life were crushed in the end leading them into catastrophic events. In The Color Purple, characters are able to overcome the effects of oppression with the help of the solidarity of women and their personalities can survive almost intact. Thus they show resilience in the face of adversity.

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.

scholarly journals A REESCRITURA DE THE COLOR PURPLE NO CINEMA:

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-180
Author(s):  
Raquel Barros Veronesi
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
Steven Spielberg ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Color Purple

Neste trabalho, analisamos a tradução das personagens Celie e Shug do romance de Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982), para sua adaptação fílmica de 1985, dirigido por Steven Spielberg. Especificamente, investigamos a reescritura do relacionamento homoafetivo entre as personagens, no cinema, uma vez que se trata do amor entre duas mulheres negras no início do século XX. Diante de aspectos suscitadores de discussões polêmicas – ser mulher, ser negra, ser homossexual – percebemos a dificuldade de adaptar tais personagens para o meio cinematográfico. Acreditamos, portanto, que, devido a exigências mercadológicas diferentes das que regem a Literatura e considerando a época em que foi lançado, o filme suaviza algumas cenas em que Celie e Shug demonstram o amor que sentem uma pela outra. Assim, utilizando os Estudos Descritivos da Tradução (TOURY, 2012), objetivamos investigar quais estratégias foram utilizadas no processo de tradução de situações que demonstram esta relação afetiva, observando como o filme lida com a proposta de Walker, que busca evidenciar a mulher negra e sua trajetória de luta contra a discriminação gênero-racial.

scholarly journals Africa, the Sweet Home of Roots or the Dark Continent of Primitiveness?: Alice Walker’s Africa in The Color Purple

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Lei Sun ◽  
Xiangyong Kong
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
Dark Continent ◽  
Color Purple ◽  
The Way

With the detection from the post-colonial perspective, there is a certain amount of truth in the statement that Alice Walker’s The Color Purple sometimes reveals Eurocentric ideology, even though she overtly makes efforts for Africa and Africans. The way in which she delineates Nettie’s missionary job in Olinka, confirms habitual Western suspicions about equality between Europe and Africa. With the reexamination of the depiction about the African continent Nettie sketches out, additionally, we might notice Walker’s intention of setting up Africa as a foil to Europe, to some extent, echoes Said’s orientalist discourse.

scholarly journals CELIE: A PORTRAYAL OF AN AFRO-AMERICAN WOMAN'S REJECTION OF TRADITIONAL VALUES

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Ekawati Marhaenny Dukut ◽  
Nuki Dhamayanti
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Color Purple ◽  
The World ◽  
Color Purple

The world of literature can be a medium of expressing the writer's expressions and ideas. Universal topics such as, love, death, and war often become subject mailers in the world of literature. In the novel, of The Color Purple. Alice Walker describes the oppression experienced by Afro American women in the female characters of Celie, Nellie, Shug Avery, Sofia, and Mary Agnes who faced sexual discrimina!ions in a patriarchal society. Womanhood, education, and lesbianism are factors that help the Afro American women to free themselves from traditional values. The Color Purple puts into words the process of its main character, Celie, who tries to reject and escape from the male domination of her world. The other Afro American women characters that help Celie to find her selfidentity represent the manifestation of the rejection of the traditional values. This article. which uses the socio-historical alld feminism approach. is intended to analyse the Afro-American women's rejection of traditional values by focusing on the major character of' Walker's The Color Purple. Celie. as she develops from being a victim of traditional values to the rejoiceful discovery of her selfidentity.

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