Violence and women resilience in Alice Walker's : the color purple

Abstract EN

Racist and sexist ideologies pervade every aspect of the American society to a degree that they become hegemonic and yet are seen as ordinary.

being black and being a woman in an American society meant that you are to be excluded from their culture and despised by them.

unlike their white female counterparts who were idealized through the images of : piety, purity, and domesticity , black women suffered all the burdens of prejudice and mistreatment, they were unacknowledged of in both : white society and feminist theoretical analysis and criticism.

in stark contrast to the novels of black men who are obsessed by the white man, as the main obstacle to their manhood, black women encountered another barrier which is sexism and racism and their effects.

this paper, aims at investigating the plethora of violence and the power of women’s solidarity in Alice Walker’s the color purple.

the intended method for this paper is descriptive-interpretive, as it attempts to describe the miserable social life of black women in the us society, especially in terms of sexuality and gender inequality.