Women's Liberation in The Color Purple

DOI

10.2991/icesame-17.2017.17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

lesbian, animism, woman-bounding

Abstract

In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, the protagonist Celie, one of the representatives of black woman goes through years of suffering and hardship under the oppression of black male the white male and female. With the help of Shug, Sofia and Nettie, she tries her best to find her love and God. Her female awareness returns, her revolutionary occurs. She becomes a lesbian, leaves home, makes trousers and founds corporation. Finally, she is independent on sex, finance and her social status rises. Her liberation expresses Alice Walker's womanism fully, arises the masses to probe into the way of black women's liberation, and inspires black women to liberate themselves.

Copyright

© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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  - Linzhi Shao
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TI  - Women's Liberation in The Color Purple
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)
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