The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by
Alice Walker, published in 1982. It won a
Pulitzer Prize in 1983. A feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman's struggle for empowerment, the novel was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Relié.
Book Description
Celie's development is chronicled through her letters in Alice Walker's novel. The title, Alice Walker’s The
Color Purple, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Alice Walker, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
