Alice Walker’s Womanism: Beyond Feminism in The Color Purple

Few novels have reshaped feminist literary criticism as profoundly as Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Since its publication in 1982, the novel has been celebrated for exposing racism, and patriarchal oppression and domestic violence. Yet reducing it to a “feminist novel” grossly ignores its most radical intervention. Walker does not merely advocate equality between men

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