Alice Walker, Activism, Resistance, Women's struggle, Slave narrative. | ||
| Journal of the College of Languages | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 36, December 2017, Pages 1-22 | ||
| Author | ||
| Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Banna | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Alice Walker (1944) ranks among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Through her novels Meridian and the color Purple, Alice outlines many issues concerning the effect of authoritarian thinking upon its often innocent victims, and the possibility of meaningful, productive resistance. Walker's texts aim at giving a voice to those who have no voice especially those poor, rural black women who are robbed of power and the right to make decisions about their own lives by a range of forces standing against them. These texts also aim at clarifying how Walker's female protagonists, Meridian and Celia try to free themselves from oppression, misery , fear and underestimation by men in the Patriarchal society. Walker's heroines nevertheless articulate clear visions not just of the wrongs they face, but also of the hope and strength that cannot be quenched within them. In 1976, walker's second novel, Meridian, was published . The novel dealt with activist workers in the South during the civil rights movement, and closely paralleled some of Walker's own experiences. In 1982, Walker published what has become her best-known work, the color Purple. The novel follows a young troubled black woman fighting her way through not just racist white culture but patriarchal black culture as well. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Alice Walker; Activism; Resistance; Women; Slave narrative | ||
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