The Color Purple

The Color Purple brought on it’s self a storm of controversy upon it’s publication.

Critics charged Walker with focusing on the sexual oppression of black women at the expense of dealing with the overall oppression of blacks. However, Walker's novel is a complex analysis of race relations and racial identity. Celie’s letters to God are the sole narrative for the first half of the novel. Celie is a poor, uneducated, Southern black woman. Her experiences are limited to a small geographic area. However, when she discovers her sister Nettie’s letters after years of separation, Walker situates Celie's narrative at the crossroads of a complex discourse on racial identity.

Samuel, Nettie, and Corrine travel to Africa as missionaries. They naively expect Africans to identify with them on the basis of their race. However, Africans often associate them with other foreigners. They are not welcomed as long-lost brothers and sisters. The Olinka village where they work regards them with a mixture of contempt and indifference. They s

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Approximate Word count = 729
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)