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The Color Purple
Title: The Color Purple
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 718 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Color Purple
The Color Purple
The Color Purple brought on it’s self a storm of controversy upon it’s publication.
Critics charged Walker with focusing on the sexual oppression of black women at the expense of dealing with the overall oppression of blacks. However, Walker's novel is a complex analysis of race relations and racial identity. Celie’s letters to God are the sole narrative for the first half of the novel. Celie is a poor, …showed first 75 words of 718 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 718 total…unapologetic in its attacks on sexism, and it is equally unapologetic in its attacks on racism, even the racism of American blacks toward Africans. If the collective problems of blacks are to be addressed, then so must the collective plight of black women. Walker wants a black identity that assures black women equal status with black men. Without addressing this issue, any project of fighting for racial equality is marred by hypocrisy from the start.
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