Racism and sexism in Alice Walker's the color purple
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Memoire
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Bibliothèque Centrale | 820.NDA.2018 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Not for loan | 5010000364069 |
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Award of the degree" Licence en langue et littérature anglaises"
Résumé,
This work examines racism and sexism in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. It Analyzes racism and sexism as inflicted on the African-Americans by the racist post slavery Americans and male supremacy. It focuses on the attempts by the Black Americans to emerge from such challenges and to redefine themselves and their existence. Alice Walker in The Color Purple exposes the oppression African Americans suffer and shows a way out of this suffering through female solidarity and creativity. The author proffers alternative forms of living to women that go beyond the traditional paradigm created by the dominant male society. In this regard, the work is based on the hypothesis that the racial and sexist oppression endured by the female characters in Alice Walker's The Color Purple forces them to adopt female solidarity and creativity as solutions to their problems. The work employs Marxist Feminism, which critically looks at sex and race as the platform that capitalist societies use in order to foster discrimination. Therefore, this study concludes that the black American woman, as Walker presents her, is not the malleable woman as men would take her to be but a progressive and assertive human being.
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