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1. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. READ MORE
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2. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. READ MORE
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3. Strength in Numbers : A Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The Color Purple (1982) is a well-known feminist work of literature written by the ‘womanist’ Alice Walker. This analysis sought to analyse Walker’s novel in order to identify and discuss the criticism of patriarchal power relations in the novel. READ MORE
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4. Approaching the Ideal Self through Love: Lacan’s objet petit a and Representations of Love in The Color Purple, Poor Things, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : Using Jacques Lacan’s theories of subjectivity, this dissertation analyses the relationships between the ideal selves and the romantic desires of characters in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondous Life of Oscar Wao. Lacan argues that there is an inherent lack in all human beings, stemming from incompleteness and early helplessness, and employs the notion of the objet petit a, the cause for desire, to represent a subject’s desire to redress their lack. READ MORE
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5. A Product of Womanism: Shug Avery in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Feminism in the early 1980's in the United States revolved much around social and cultural matters such as sexual liberation, self- definition and self- realization for women. Derived from these ideas within feminism comes Alice Walker's Womanism, that is the writer's own definition of the strong and independent woman of color. READ MORE
