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  1. 1. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Bäckman Ellen; [2023]
    Nyckelord :The Color Purple; abuse; feminism; compulsory heterosexuality; lesbianism;

    Sammanfattning : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. LÄS MER

  2. 2. A Black woman's fight against oppression: Celie's transformation in the Color Purple

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Hanna Stark; [2023]
    Nyckelord :The Color Purple; Celie; feminism; oppression; gender traits; masculine femininity;

    Sammanfattning : In the novel the Color Purple (1982), the author, Alice Walker, highlights the oppression African American women had to endure in the South, during the 1920s. It tells the story of the protagonist Celie's life, from being a sexual abused girl, to becoming an independent woman. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Strength in Numbers : A Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Mårten Wahlström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :The Color Purple; Alice Walker; literature; feminism; feminist analysis; womanism; psychoanalysis;

    Sammanfattning : The Color Purple (1982) is a well-known feminist work of literature written by the ‘womanist’ Alice Walker. This analysis sought to analyse Walker’s novel in order to identify and discuss the criticism of patriarchal power relations in the novel. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Approaching the Ideal Self through Love: Lacan’s objet petit a and Representations of Love in The Color Purple, Poor Things, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Författare :Lukas Krupka; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Jacques Lacan; objet petit a; love; attraction; desire; selfhood; ideal self; self realisation; Alice Walker; The Color Purple; Alasdair Gray; Poor Things; Junot Díaz; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Using Jacques Lacan’s theories of subjectivity, this dissertation analyses the relationships between the ideal selves and the romantic desires of characters in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondous Life of Oscar Wao. Lacan argues that there is an inherent lack in all human beings, stemming from incompleteness and early helplessness, and employs the notion of the objet petit a, the cause for desire, to represent a subject’s desire to redress their lack. LÄS MER

  5. 5. A Product of Womanism: Shug Avery in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Anna Janusiewicz; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Feminism Black Feminism Alice Walker The Color Purple Shug Avery Womanism;

    Sammanfattning : Feminism in the early 1980's in the United States revolved much around social and cultural matters such as sexual liberation, self- definition and self- realization for women. Derived from these ideas within feminism comes Alice Walker's Womanism, that is the writer's own definition of the strong and independent woman of color. LÄS MER