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The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Resources:

  • Brief biography of Alice Walker from Biography.com

  • VIDEO: "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" from American Masters series by PBS

  • Alice Walker answers questions from readers about The Color Purple from EarlyBirdBooks.com

Critical Articles:

  • "Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Redefining God and (Re)Claiming the Spirit Within" - Jeannie Thyreen

  • "Celie's Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker's The Color Purple" - Charles L. Proudfit

  • "Errant Narrative and The Color Purple" - Steven Weisenburger

  • "How Narration Produces Gender: Femininity as Affect and Effect in Alice Walker's The Color Purple" - Robyn R Warhol

  • "On The Color Purple, Stereotypes, and Silence" - Trudier Harris

  • "Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple" - Linda Selzer

  • "Race, Gender, and Nation in The Color Purple" - Lauren Berlant

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