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Suppressed Female Voices in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this paper was to explore the concept of articulating silenced female voices in Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple. While Walker is trying to find an adequate answer to the question of understanding black female writers as artists, she highlights the legacy of slavery and the power of women who managed to find their creative expression, and thus, Walker manages to articulate the silenced voices of her black heroines in The Color Purple. Introducing the term "womanist", Walker creates the space in which silenced female voices are articulated through their fight against repression. Class, gender and sexuality are shown as sites of difference and oppression, and then, as sites of operation of power. The first criticism on black women’s literature appeared upon this novel’s publication and Alice Walker became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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