A Study of Feminine Ties in Walker’s The Color Purple
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Afro-American women, Heterosexuality, Lesbianism, WomanismAbstract
The research aims to probe into the womanism and relationship of women in Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple. Its central concern is to analyze the motive behind the intense and lesbian relationship of such leading female characters of the novel as Celie and Shug. The research tool taken to analyze why the chief characters of the novel prefer women’s culture and women’s emotional flexibility is ‘womanism’, a theory first popularized by Alice Walker herself, and queer theory of Judith Butler. The principal finding of the paper is that Celie, Shug, and other female characters of The Color Purple look womanish, that is make courageous, willful, and even lesbian relationship among themselves to display their strength and to resist being the commodities of men. The researchers intended to survey the female relationships and womanism in other works are expected to take the work as a reference.
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