Black Feminism: Treatment of Women in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Abstract

Alice Walker is one of the prominent Afro-American writers. Her novel The Color Purple (1982) deals with the sufferings of black women. Time and again, numerous writers have written about male's dominance over women. However, the fiction of Walker presents a feminist perspective. The present paper highlights the issues of characters from a womanist perspective. It also focuses on the females' struggle who belong to the black society. The present paper questions the class struggle among the black society and the utopian female world. It also throws light on the racism and sexism that work together to disgrace women’s role and existence. The journey of the protagonist in the novel shows the dominance of the traditional gender roles. As a black woman herself, Alice Walker brings to light the hardships of black women in the current novel, The Color Purple.