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Sexual Identity In Perdigao

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As the film continued, there was a shift in the lesbian discourse as Shug is provided with a new husband and Celie moves to a different social environment. There, she is not able to openly accept her homoerotic desires. It 's as if the film director purposefully used the character, Shug, to seduce her into accepting her sexual identity. Perdigao argues that even though Celie may desire women and may express sexual longing in her encounter with Shug, “there no social reality exists so that she can express that desire in ongoing sexual practice” (p. 150). I truly agree with Perdigao because the film represented a period where black women couldn 't express their sexual identity or they would be going against sexual norms. In other words, even

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