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The Enchanted World of The Color Purple by Margaret Walsh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Enchanted World of The Color Purple about?
Even though Alice Walker conspicuously uses fairy tale conventions and language in The Color Purple and even though she has been charged with unrealistic and distorted portrayals of black men and of violence by black males therein, her novel has not been read from the perspective of a fairy tale, a genre in which just such unpleasantness and exaggeration are to be expected. Complaints usually center on Walker's young black men who, many say, are often depicted stereotypically and are only allowed to attain human proportions when they are old and sexually inactive (Bradley 32, 34). In The Color Purple horrible things certainly do happen to young black women and a good young black man surely is hard to find, but this situation should prompt us to ask why a member of the black community would resort to stereotypes, and, if she does, why readers would accept them.
Who reads The Enchanted World of The Color Purple?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Margaret Walsh
- Publisher
- ProQuest
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Cultural, Social_sciences
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