Personal Identity In Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Name Instructor Course Date Analysis of Sisterhood Redemption through unity in The Color Purple shows ways in which sisterhood can produce and reinforce newly-formed unions between women, resulting in a sense of autonomy and independence. Sisterhood offers women the chance to gain self-discovery and the capacity to define their lives and sexuality.

This poem parallels “homage to my hips” written by Lucille Clifton, which discusses her own struggles with learning to appreciate and love her body due to the fact that it was not petite like the ideal body society painted during the mid-twentieth century. For through the repetition of the phrase “hips” and the images of freedom by using phrases such as “they go where they want to go” and “these hips have never been enslaved,” Clifton suggests that learning to fight oppression starts with self-love. For in an interview Clifton states “is there something wrong with having hips? We like everything big except females in this culture,” thus Clifton is expressing her distain for the ideals that cause thousands of women across the United states to grow up hating their body (Pate).

In wich depict the mulatto theme which had become popular in American literature. In such works the male or female protagonist, who is light enough to pass for white, finds that all personal ambitions (education, employment, social mobility in general) are severely limited when one is held to the racial restrictions which typified the early 20th century in the North as well as in the South. Nella Larsen had a great influence in fighting for the rights of African Americans that were suffering from racism, and were restricted for their basic rights and forced to migrate to find a better life. Quicksand is a book that talk about a brave girl that struggle a lot to live in American society. Although this means that Nella Larsen use Helga experience to explore racial tension in 1920s in America and Europe and how mix-race people struggle to find their identity in two insular cultures.

This novel highlights a real picture of slavery during the Nineteenth Century and these origins moreover shaped the deep meaning of the work as a whole. Despite Sethe being successful in escaping Sweet Home, she is haunted so much by Beloved’s apparition and her memories, resulting to lose a sense of who she really is. Morrison emphasized the idea that Sethe’s repressed past was still present, not only in Sethe’s life but in the lives of countless Black Americans today and anyone who has experienced slavery in any part of this

Alice Walker, the author of an essay “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden”, is a famous American writer and activist. She speaks for the rights of people and helps the offended while supporting revolutionists and leaders whom she considers to be bringing change to the world and seek for its transformation. Her essay, “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden”, dedicated to the struggle of African American women, is based on the feminist insights of the author. Based on her own experience, the experience of others, and the historical events, the author reveals the topic of the suppressed talent of African American women, of their lost artistic skills resulting from slavery and the imposed on them role. However, Walker point out that somehow the dark past has not completely damaged the creative power of the mothers and grandmothers since it has manifested itself in the small things they did for the people they loved.

Imagine a life being dominated by others and being traded around like an object. Imagine a life having a constant fear of not being able to stand up for what is right. This was the case for Celie and many other black women during the early 1900s. America, for the most part, has grown out of these social injustices, but how much does one really know what events took place in these little southern towns? Alice Walker exposes real life examples of controversial topics to teach readers about what actually occurred during these one hundred years.

Could you imagine living a life that is, in fact, not your own? Such is a day in the lives of the female characters of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Feminism is one of the core values in Walker’s novel, as it follows Celie’s path to happiness and freedom to live a life of her own. The book opens with Celie trapped in a series of male-dominant relationships, unable to stand up for herself, but along her journey, she learns from and of other women in similarly constricting situations, some of whom rise above all attempts by men and society to put them down.

Toni Morrison is the most important contemporary women novelists and critics in African-American Literature. The descriptive-analytical method of study by analyzing the situations, the characters and themes, the status of women in Literature are revealed and represented. Morrison very well describes how different women characters react and respond differently to the injustice and the inhumanity imposed on them in African-American society. African American writers are concerned with the lack of literature fostering strong female models.

Women’s Writings Sir, Waseem Hassan Malik October 25, 2015 Black Feminism in The Color Purple Novel by Alice Walker Abstract The aim and object of this paper is to study Black Feminism in the Novel Color Purple by Alice Walker. Afro-American Literature Started in the beginning of twentieth century to give voice to the Black Women who are victim of racism, sexism and verbal abuse. There are renowned writers like Alice Walker, Toni Morison, Walter Mosely who Sternly advocated the rights of African women through their exemplary writings.

Toni Morrison’s gothic writing surrounds the cold-blooded essence of the south post civil- war. She uses striking vocabulary to reveal the hardships of African Americans in the deep south. Her writing unapologetically real. Morrison has and is continuing to set the path for all southern gothic writers. Toni Morrison is a southern gothic, literary icon who has won countless awards for her work such as Beloved and The Bluest Eye; not only is she revolutionary for women but she is also for all African Americans.

In the early 1900s racism was still very much alive in Mississippi. Although the relationships of whites and blacks had come a long way in the sense that African Americans could live free lives, many still found their life was controlled by white people. For Essie Mae in the book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, she witnessed these scenarios to be true. Essie Mae was a young African American woman that was very well educated for her age and began to understand what type of environment she was growing up in. As events played out in her life she quickly realized the world to be hostile to all African Americans.

Unity is only possible when we celebrate our differences. Societal labels concerning gender and sex segregate even those who face similar discrimination. Stone Butch Blues, written by activist Leslie Feinberg, tells of Jess Goldberg who is characterized by the 1960 era by a powerful simple question: “what are you?” (Feinberg 12) Nobody, not even herself, has a clear answer. Jess is a butch female to her friends, but either a disgraceful female or respected male to coworkers and family.