| Zannou Adiele, The African American Woman Struggle for Freedom in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple |
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| 02-11-2015 | |
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The African American Woman Struggle for Freedom in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple Zannou Adiele Introduction On February 9, 1944 was born Alice Walker in Eatonville, the eighth child of Willie Lee and Grant Walker, both sharecroppers. She attended College and in the sixties got involved in the civil right movement. Consequently she was labeled a womanist after a term created by herself. The Encyclopedia Universalis explains: “The term “womanist” created by Walker in 1983, asserts that not only gender oppression but also race oppression must be confronted, which affects and sharpens gender in inexorable way (…). |