Womanism and The Color Purple

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201127.131How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Color Purple, Womanism, female consciousness, the subjectivity rebuilding

Abstract

This paper aims at studying Womanism and Womanism in The Color Purple. Alice Walker’s Womanism is originated from feminism and it has new demands and different perspectives to feminism. This paper elaborates Womanism in The Color Purple from the following three perspectives: the dilemma of the black women in The Color Purple, the revival of the female consciousness, and the subjectivity rebuilding of the black women. The novel gives a full expression of the ideological connotation and vivid description of black women’s struggle for liberation and nationalities’ striving for equality based on Womanism. This paper reveals Walker’s intention to awaken the female self-consciousness of being self-respected, self-supported and eventually self-liberated, as well as her dream of building a harmonious society in which men and women, white and black live in harmony.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Long Shi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - Womanism and The Color Purple
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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