The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Resources:

• Brief biography of Alice Walker from Biography.com

• VIDEO: "Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" from American Masters series by PBS

• Alice Walker answers questions from readers about The Color Purple from EarlyBirdBooks.com

Critical Articles:

• "Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Redefining God and (Re)Claiming the Spirit Within" - Jeannie Thyreen

• "Celie's Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker's The Color Purple" - Charles L. Proudfit

• "Errant Narrative and The Color Purple" - Steven Weisenburger

• "How Narration Produces Gender: Femininity as Affect and Effect in Alice Walker's The Color Purple" - Robyn R Warhol

• "On The Color Purple, Stereotypes, and Silence" - Trudier Harris

• "Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple" - Linda Selzer

• "Race, Gender, and Nation in The Color Purple" - Lauren Berlant