LEADER 04804nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910777706003321 005 20230615143411.0 010 $a1-282-59421-4 010 $a9786612594212 010 $a90-420-2891-2 010 $a1-4416-0651-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042028913 035 $a(CKB)1000000000755811 035 $a(EBL)556773 035 $a(OCoLC)659500196 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411535 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12156006 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411535 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10357474 035 $a(PQKB)10388490 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556773 035 $a(OCoLC)320361247$z(OCoLC)643805524$z(OCoLC)659500196$z(OCoLC)712629260$z(OCoLC)712988651$z(OCoLC)722739328$z(OCoLC)728058977$z(OCoLC)842264421$z(OCoLC)888949106$z(OCoLC)961523772$z(OCoLC)962626857$z(OCoLC)988473959$z(OCoLC)992075987 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042028913 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556773 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380443 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL259421 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000755811 100 $a20090803d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAlice Walker's The color purple$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Kheven LaGrone 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 225 1 $aDialogue ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2544-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tPreliminary Material --$tWe Need a Hero: African American Female Bildungsromane and Celie?s Journey to Heroic Female Selfhood in Alice Walker?s The Color Purple /$rBrenda R. Smith --$tMaking Hurston?s Heroine Her Own: Love and Womanist Resistance in The Color Purple /$rTracy L. Bealer --$tAlice Walker?s The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale /$rRaphaël Lambert --$tRendering the African-American Woman?s God through The Color Purple /$rPatricia Andujo --$tGod is (a) Pussy: The Pleasure Principle and Homo-Spirituality in Shug?s Blueswoman Theology /$rMarlon Rachquel Moore --$tWitnessing and Testifying: Transformed Language and Selves in The Color Purple /$rR. Erin Huskey --$t?My Man Treats Me Like a Slave?: The Triumph of Womanist Blues over Blues Violence in Alice Walker?s The Color Purple /$rCourtney George --$tAlice Walker?s Revisionary Politics of Rape /$rRobin E. Field --$tSignificance of Sisterhood and Lesbianism in Fiction of Women of Color /$rUplabdhi Sangwan --$tHomeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in The Color Purple /$rDanielle Russell --$tA House of Her Own: Alice Walker?s Readjustment of Virginia Woolf?s A Room of One?s Own in The Color Purple /$rTurgay Bayindir --$tAdapting and Integrating: The Color Purple as Broadway Musical /$rKathryn Edney --$tAlice Walker?s Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardson?s Pamela in The Color Purple /$rApryl Denny --$tFocalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple /$rPing Zhou --$tEssay Abstracts --$tAbout The Authors --$tIndex. 330 $aAlice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Color Purple is a tale of personal empowerment which opens with a protagonist Celie who is at the bottom of America's social caste. A poor, black, ugly and uneducated female in the America's Jim Crow South in the first half of the 20th century, she is the victim of constant rape, violence and misogynistic verbal abuse. Celie cannot conceive of an escape from her present condition, and so she learns to be passive and unemotional. But The Color Purple eventually demonstrates how Celie learns to fight back and how she discovers her true sexuality and her unique voice. By the end of the novel, Celie is an empowered, financially-independent entrepreneur/landowner, one who speaks her mind and realizes the desirability of black femaleness while creating a safe space for herself and those she loves. Through a journey of literary criticism, Dialogue: Alice Walker's The Color Purple follows Celie's transformation from victim to hero. Each scholarly essay becomes a step of the journey that paves the way for the development of self and sexual awareness, the beginnings of religious transformation and the creation of nurturing places like home and community. 410 0$aDialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ;$v5. 606 $aAfrican American women in literature 615 0$aAfrican American women in literature. 676 $a810 701 $aLaGrone$b Kheven$01481485 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777706003321 996 $aAlice Walker's The color purple$93698467 997 $aUNINA