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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.. The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content ...
“The Color Purple” catalogs a staggering amount of trauma, but takes no pleasure in depicting it — that can be challenging in stories where a character is made to suffer for years before ...
Now, with the Christmas Day opening of the second film based on Walker's 1982 book, purple takes a seat at the box office after the historic popularity of “Barbie” and all things pink.
The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes.It is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer blockbusters for which he had become known.
Possessing the Secret of Joy is a 1992 novel by Alice Walker. Plot summary. It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker's fictional African nation where female genital mutilation is practiced. Tashi marries an American man named ...
“The Color Purple,” a movie musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel, 1985 film, and stage musical is slated to premiere in North America on Dec. 25.
The experiences of Black women who survive domestic violence can be framed in terms of hope but also the reality that their experiences are overlooked.
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1982) "The Champagne Lady," Hatshepsut's Legacy, SDiane Adamz-Bogus (ca. 1985) Living as a Lesbian, Cheryl Clarke (1986) The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez (1991) Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair (1994) Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing, Catherine McKinley and L. Joyce DeLaney (1995)