The Color Purple 紫色

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Thank you for your attention!
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The Color Purple
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Presented by Wang Yizhu
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• Alice Walker(1944- ) The Color Purple(1982)
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• Narrative strategy • Language • Symbolism
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The main themes in her works
• rape
• violence
• isolation
• troubled relationships
• multi-generational perspectives
• sexism
• racism
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Time and place written 1982, California
Alice Walker
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• Time: 1910–1940.
No dates, little sense of the passage of time, and very few mentions of characters’ ages.
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Thank you !
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★In 1982 The Color Purple came out
★Still active in protecting black people’s rights now
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Main works
• The Third Life of Grange Copeland(1970) • Meridian(1976) • The Color Purple(1982) • The Temple of My Familiar(1989) • Possessing the Secret of Joy(1990)
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Alice Walker(1944- )
★ An American feminist black writer
★Born into a sharecropper’s family
in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944
★Attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College on scholarships
I meant to write you
in time for Easter,
fobrumtaitl wEansgnlisoht a
good time for me
and I did not want to
burden you with any
distressing news.
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Symbolism in the novel
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Narrative Strategy
• Epistolary form • Epistolary novel: a series of letters
exchanged among the characters of the story. • popular in the 18th century • Samuel Richardson: Pamela • Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Worther
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• • 90 letters •
61 Celie to God 14 Celie to her sister Nettie 15 Nettie to Celie
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1.vulnerable people seek consolation from the spiritual world
2.no one to talk about , too ashamed to tell other people
The color purple 1.pronunciation: the colored people 2.purple: a combination of blue and red 3.indomitable female spirit
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Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.
Genre epistolary novel
Setting of the novel Time:1910–1940 Place: Rural Georgia
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Shug
• Celie’s step father • • Adam • Olivia
Celie Nettie
Mr._ Harpo, Sofia
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Language In the Color Purple
I ast Couerlinee: w
mammy bout Shug
blAaasvctek.rSyf.ohWelkdhloaantn’igtt uisa?gIe
know but she say she gone fine out.
Nettie
The Color Purple
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• 1. The introduction about Alice Walker
• 2. Her main works
• 3. Main themes in her novels
• 4. Introduction about The Color Purple
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★In her junior year, went to Africa as an exchanging student
★ Graduated in 1965 , her writing career began in the same year
★Married in 1967 ( divorced in 1976)