Alice Walker is a much acclaimed, contemporary, Afro- American novelist, poetess, activist and philanthropist writing for her declared cause of uplifting Afro- American women and projecting them as goddesses in her fictions. Her fictitious world is typical as the world painted by her predecessors and contemporary Afro -Americans both men and women writers. Her fictitious world, though much dominated by female characters, Walker casts much insight into the male characters making them grow simultaneously and become aware of the tyranny, agonies, and sufferings sustained by their women since their capture and their forceful sale in slave market, their estrangement from their own children, kith and kin and their empowerment through different liberation
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They were the victims of the whites and the blacks, doubly oppressed, the color and gender, racism and sexism, poverty and powerlessness. The double slavery imposed upon them was horrible. They became the slaves of their husbands. This is the picture presented by Walker in her factional world. Hence, Celie, the protagonist in “the Color Purple” screams,
“And I ain’t a woman? Look at me! Look at my arms! I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And I ain’t a woman? I could work as much as a …show more content…
She dismisses the label and describes her works and social conviction as` womanist.’ She takes to define the term as “a woman who loves other women ...... Appreciates and prefers woman’s culture, woman’s emotional flexibility.... and woman’s strength..... loves the spirit, loves her...regardless.” Contrary to it, a feminist is one who is awakened and has become conscious about women’s life and problem and knows the exploitation is caused by patriarchal hegemony and it has to be ended if one has to build a society based on equality. An awakening that one is oppressed just because of one is black and female, creates a feeling of black feminist consciousness. The black women writers like Alice Walker express such
They were the victims of the whites and the blacks, doubly oppressed, the color and gender, racism and sexism, poverty and powerlessness. The double slavery imposed upon them was horrible. They became the slaves of their husbands. This is the picture presented by Walker in her factional world. Hence, Celie, the protagonist in “the Color Purple” screams,
“And I ain’t a woman? Look at me! Look at my arms! I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And I ain’t a woman? I could work as much as a …show more content…
She dismisses the label and describes her works and social conviction as` womanist.’ She takes to define the term as “a woman who loves other women ...... Appreciates and prefers woman’s culture, woman’s emotional flexibility.... and woman’s strength..... loves the spirit, loves her...regardless.” Contrary to it, a feminist is one who is awakened and has become conscious about women’s life and problem and knows the exploitation is caused by patriarchal hegemony and it has to be ended if one has to build a society based on equality. An awakening that one is oppressed just because of one is black and female, creates a feeling of black feminist consciousness. The black women writers like Alice Walker express such