Interpretation Of Womanism In Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Alice Walker is a great black woman writer in America The Color Purple is her masterpiece, in which she creates a female character who tried to find her own identity in the patriarchal society. The novel is full of Walker's womanist views. The thesis focuses on the analysis of her womanism in order to illustrate how Alice Walker makes the protagonist Celie get rid of the oppression of the male and reestablishes a harmonious relationship between black men and womea It displays the tragic condition of the protagonist Celie and other black women in the patriarchal society. Through sisterhood black women who are deeply influenced by Afrocentric ideas unite together and construct a new community, where the dominant values are defined in terms of the womanist values. In this womanist world differences are highly respected and solved through communications. Actually the community is an extended family of love. The thesis concludes that Alice Walker's womanism enriches contemporary feminism in that it has its own uniqueness.