Women as Marginalized Sex in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Abstract

Indian writing in English is a literature produced by Indian authors who native or co- native of India similarly Afro-American literature produced by African authors in America. The authors like Philips Whitely and Olaudah Equiano, produced such a literature in the eighteenth century, they highlighted the slave narratives and the Harlem rebirth.  But now there are many authors who produced an ample literature like Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Walter Mosley who are considered as the top writers in Afro- American genre. The specialty   of this form of literature, they focused how black people were oppressed America.  Through the novel ‘The Color Purple’ Alice Walker brought the suffering of black women into existence. Alice Walker’s main intention was to highlight the sexual and racial issues and the struggle of women for survival.  She depicted the problems of women on the demotic level.  It represents the coercion and the use of black women, violence, subjugation and sexual exploitation.  The main aim of this paper is to highlight the complicated life and sufferings of a female leading character Celie and other female characters in the novel who wants to freedom from society.

Keywords: Patriarchy, Sexual Oppression, Racism, Rape and Feminism.

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/52-01