Alice Walker's The color purple

著者

• LaGrone, Kheven

書誌事項

Alice Walker's The color purple

edited by Kheven LaGrone

（Dialogue / edited by Michael J. Meyer, 5）

Rodopi, 2009

• : pbk

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Alice 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.

目次

General Editor's Preface Introduction: To follow the Hero's Journey Rendering the (Womanist) Hero Brenda R. SMITH: We Need a Hero: African American Female Bildungsromane and Celie's Journey to Heroic Female Selfhood in Alice Walker's The Color Purple Tracy L. BEALER: Making Hurston's Heroine Her Own: Love and Womanist Resistance in The Color Purple Raphael LAMBERT: Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale Theology of Liberation Patricia ANDUJO: Rendering the African-American Woman's God through The Color Purple Marlon Rachquel MOORE: God is (a) Pussy: The Pleasure Principle and Homo-Spirituality in Shug's Blueswoman Theology Dear God . . . Dear Peoples . . . Dear Everything R. Erin HUSKEY: Witnessing and Testifying: Transformed Language and Selves in The Color Purple Courtney GEORGE: "My Man Treats Me Like a Slave": The Triumph of Womanist Blues over Blues Violence in Alice Walker's The Color Purple Robin E. FIELD: Alice Walker's Revisionary Politics of Rape Uplabdhi SANGWAN: Significance of Sisterhood and Lesbianism in Fiction of Women of Color The Spirit of Space Danielle RUSSELL: Homeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in The Color Purple Turgay BAYINDIR: A House of Her Own: Alice Walker's Readjustment of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own in The Color Purple Kathryn EDNEY: Adapting and Integrating: The Color Purple as Broadway Musical The Classic Beneath the Polemic Apryl DENNY: Alice Walker's Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardson's Pamela in The Color Purple Ping ZHOU: Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple Essay Abstracts About the Authors Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB02189463
• ISBN:
  • 9789042025448
• 出版国コード: ne
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Amsterdam ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: xxv, 320 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA85667383