Racism And Sexism In The Color Purple

The cyclical nature of Racism and Sexism in “The color purple”

Introduction:

The novel color purple underlines the general social issues of Racism, Sexism, Patriarchal nature of society and the never ending issue of Apartheid and Sexual abuse. It is a deep tale of a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls ‘father’ and is being trapped in an ugly marriage. The novel unfolds the evil of society and abuse of colonizing the souls and minds of people called as’ Black’. The novel forms to be a part of “Afro- American” literature written in the twentieth century. Color purple is a 1982 epistolary novel taking place mostly in rural Georgia. The novel including the above mentioned evils of society

In the essay and the novel together discusses about the two dimensions of the black man which somewhere makes them fall prey to the subjugation of the whites. Alice walker in her novel ‘ The Color purple’ and Franz fanon in his essay talks of the two dimensions that a black man keeps with his fellow mates and with the whites and this self division is a direct result of colonist subjugation and it even goes beyond this evil thing. The Negros would try to learn the western languages much faster and leave on their own for the other to gain supremacy but this process turns out to be the start of mastery of different powers over them. The two pieces creates the very strong effect that it should have for its true incidents and examples being quoted. The impression of not following what is more powerful and influential is being portrayed by the pieces and message that they lights up is of sticking to one’s language and nation. We as readers would see the drastic change that the Negro adopts in one by renouncing his darkness and becoming whiter this to the knowledge of fact is a direct result of inferiority complex and of

Her writing explores multidimensional kinships among women and embraces the redemptive power of social and political revolution. Walker began publishing her fiction during the latter years of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s. Walker six novels place more emphasis on the inner workings of African American life than on the relationships between Blacks and Whites. The Color Purple has generated the most public attention as a book and as a major motion picture, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1985. The Color Purple is an epistolary novel- a work structured through a series of letters. The color Purple brings components of nineteenth century slave autobiography and sentimental fiction together with a confessional narrative of sexual awakening. Critics have praised her forthright depiction of taboo subjects and her clear rendering of folk idiom and