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Hypothesis
One of Walker's foremost works Possessing the Secret of Joy, which is doubtless considered as her most famous novel, is to be both investigated and analyzed in this survey. It makes the reader observe a contest for demonstrating identity through cultural weaponry which brings a fight between a man and a woman in order that one of them may succeed in possessing ethnic heritage which is considered to be the source of identity. However, during these conflicts the tribeswoman character of the novel tries to resist domination imposed by the non-tribal. Since power is exchanged, and there is no absolutist authority, a term which says a ruler or dominant class has total power at all times, the notions of power and resistance (counter-power)
Hypothesis
One of Walker's foremost works Possessing the Secret of Joy, which is doubtless considered as her most famous novel, is to be both investigated and analyzed in this survey. It makes the reader observe a contest for demonstrating identity through cultural weaponry which brings a fight between a man and a woman in order that one of them may succeed in possessing ethnic heritage which is considered to be the source of identity. However, during these conflicts the tribeswoman character of the novel tries to resist domination imposed by the non-tribal. Since power is exchanged, and there is no absolutist authority, a term which says a ruler or dominant class has total power at all times, the notions of power and resistance (counter-power)