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The Color Purple
Book by Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the target of censo…
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Originally publishedJune 1, 1982
Author Alice Walker
Series The Color Purple Collection
GenreFiction · Historical Fiction · Feminism · LGBT · Historical · Queer · Banned Books · African American · Literature · Novels
Characters Nettie · Albert · Celie · Shug Avery · Miss Millie
Awards Pulitzer Prize · National Book Award · National Book Critics Circle Award · Townsend Prize for Fiction
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I give this book 5 stars to spite the myopic David Gilmours and the V.S. Naipauls of the world who think books written b…
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I give this book 5 stars to spite the myopic David Gilmours and the V.S. Naipauls of the world who think books written by women are irrelevant. I give this 5 stars to make up for the many 1/2/3 star ratings it may receive simply because of Alice Walker's forthright, honest portrayal of unpleasant truths that are often conveniently shoved under the carpet so as not to disturb the carefully preserved but brittle structure of dogma and century-old misconceptions. And I award this 5 stars, symbolically on Banned Books Week as an apology for all the cowardly sentiments of the ones who misuse their power by banning books, thereby shutting out many powerful voices which demand and need to be heard.In my eyes, an author's merit lies not only in their sense of aesthetic beauty, but also in the scope and reach of their worldviews which must reflect in their craft.Alice Walker's is the voice of one such African American writer that recounts a story which not only breaches the boundaries of an issue like emancipation of women but tries to detect a common pattern in problems plaguing civilizations across continents. She gives us one horrifying glimpse after another into the lives of women ravaged by unspeakable brutalities like rape and abuse, lives searching for meaning and connection and seeking out that elusive ray of hope amidst the darkness of despair. And by the end of the narrative, she brings to light with great sensitivity, that misogyny, sexism and blind patriarchal prejudices are as rampantly in vogue in the urban, upscale sphere of American cities as they are in the intractable, untameable African landscapes.Celie and Nettie. Shug Avery, Sofia and Mary Agnes. Tashi and Olivia. All these are but different names and many facets of the same disturbing reality.If the lives of …
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I read The Colour Purple in my early teens, was traumatized by the graphic abuse portrayed, and vowed to never rea…
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I read The Colour Purple in my early teens, was traumatized by the graphic abuse portrayed, and vowed to never read it again. I was curious about why so many of my GR friends rated it so highly and was eventually convinced to give it another go.Years after my first read, I still (of course) have the same visceral reaction to the abuse but that no longer blinds me from seeing the magnificence of Alice Walker’s storytelling, and how she brings her characters to life.Celie is the protagonist of the tale. Her story is told through a series of letters written firstly to God, and then to her sister Nettie. As an abused, uneducated woman (abused by her father, husband, and step-children) who was only ever shown love by Nettie, the letters are very telling, and are the only means Celie has of expressing her feelings. I adored Celie. It really amazed me how a woman who was abused so much (sexually, physically, verbally) could still have so much love in her heart, and not be bitter. Imagine hearing things like this regularly: (Husband to Celie) – “Who you think you is? You can’t curse nobody. Look at you. You black, you pore, you ugly, you a woman. Goddam, he say, you nothing at all.” But Celie is something, and one of my favourite parts of this book is the sisterhood portrayed, especially by the enigmatic Shug, who helped Celie on her journey to self-realization. The book has strong female characters, which is another plus. I’m so glad I gave this book a second chance. Celie is a wonderful character and proof of the resilience of the human spirit. “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than …
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Wow. I mean. Really. Wow.You know how there are some books and their words wrap around you like a comfortin…
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Wow. I mean. Really. Wow.You know how there are some books and their words wrap around you like a comforting blanket? Well...This. Is. Not. One.The Color Purple rips the clothes right off of your skin, leaving you bare and vulnerable. From the first freakin' moment opening the page. You are just THERE and you can't be anywhere else but THERE. Even when you're not.Wow.Have you seen the movie? I had. I thought I was prepared. Because the movie was devastating. I remember vividly being in the house that me and a couple of college friends rented, sitting there in the dark, all of us sitting on our furniture, chain smoking, drinking wine and crying. The movie didn't prepare me.Walker's words are music. Sometimes a sweet melody, but mostly a cacophony of pain and sorrow. Oh and how the characters change and grow with time, how they eventually find peace. And the dichotomy of the South and Africa? It makes me yearn to find pieces of literature that can show me the mysteries of that continent.I am incoherent and refuse to speak of the summary. It's The Color Purple! It doesn't need a summary.It is alive.It is life.
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1982
The Color Purple Book published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1983
Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award
1985
The Color Purple film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg released
2005
The Color Purple musical adaptation with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray premiered on Broadway
2016
The Color Purple musical revival with Cynthia Erivo, Jennifer Hudson and Danielle Brooks opened and won two Tony Awards
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Walker also deals with the dressing stereotypes for men and women in The Color Purple, fighting the notion that wearing pants is a dressing meant for men alone.
The Color Purple is set in the early twentieth century when the racial divide between whites and blacks was more palpable.
‘The Color Purple’ is one of the most famous stories of struggling African-American women told by an African American woman herself.
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