The color purple / editor, Jericho Williams, Spartanburg Methodist College.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Jericho, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Alice, 1944- Color purple.

Walker, Alice.

Walker, Alice, 1944---Criticism and interpretation.

Color purple (Walker, Alice).

Race in literature.

Sex in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 245 pages).

Other Title:

Color purple by Alice Walker

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

This volume offers new readings of the classic literary work from biographical, cultural, historical, and spiritual points of view, with additional analyses devoted to art, adaptations, comparative texts, ethics, linguistics, masculinity, motherhood, poetry, and social activism and movements such as Black Lives Matter. Includes essays with works cited and endnotes, a biography and a chronology of Alice Walker's life, works by Alice Walker, a bibliography, and an index.

Contents:

The power of love and the spirit : toxic masculinity, forgiveness, and redemption in The color purple / Jericho Williams

Biography of Alice Walker / Jericho Williams

A charge to keep : Alice Walker writing herself into a Color purple existence / Kendra N. Bryant

The critical reception of The color purple / Amy Leshinsky

Educating through ethics and love : teaching that Black lives matter / Carol Blessing

"Your blues is just like mine" : a critical examination of The color purple and Push / RaSheeda V. Brown

Alice Walker's metaphysics in The color purple / Nagueyalti Warren

African American English in Alice Walker's The color purple : a linguistic analysis / Mack Campbell

Sewing, singing, and storytelling : female artistic power in The color purple / Shu-Jiang Lu

"Us each other's peoples now" : expressing lesbian desire through the epistolary form in The color purple / Erin Bell

Motherhood and the maternal body in The color purple / Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka

Women of letters : Mariama Bâ and Alice Walker / Rosemary Peters-Hill and Matthew Pinchback

Narratives of repair : Alice Walker's The color purple and Arundhati Roy's The God of small things / Lucky Issar

A comparative analysis of Alice Walker's The color purple and selected poems / Dike Okoro

"You're Black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman. You're nothin' at all!" : (In) Visibility in Steven Spielberg's The color purple (1985) / Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad

How sweet the sound : Celie's survival story as Broadway musical / Laura Dubek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781637000700

1637000707

OCLC:

1304516629