… the ‘womanist’ideals, Alice Walker, in her novel ‘The Color Purple’, encompasses a holistic
picture … for their existence or cultural identity. In this novel, Walker exhibits how the power gets …

… in this essay is the issue of selfhood, of identity, a … In both texts, selfhood is an issue of
community, a negotiation … a practice of negotiating one's self through space and time, …

… and offers a space for the exploration of non-normative sexual identities within the context
of … discovery and empowerment involves a fluid negotiation of these identities, challenging …

… fiction, is one of the best-known novels by Alice Walker, an African American writer. Alice
Walker took … There are intersections and inter-references towards each, and Nettie’s space and …

… of The Color Purple, through a hard and suffering process of return to her memories inhabits
an … space of cultural negotiations in the novel. As she inhabits this intervening space Celie is …

… identity and location: identity is intimately and irrevocably entwined with place. Neither Rich
nor Eagleton directly addresses the fiction of Alice Walker … abuse thereby negotiating a kind …

… Within that concept is the exploration of identity and self that … The Color Purple operates as
a space in which black women … to how they perceive and negotiate their experiences in the …

… Whereas the West considers Africa to be a space of savagery, the Africans in The Color Purple
… how they choose to navigate and negotiate their identities as humans against oppressive …

… Walker use language variation and for what purpose? My claim is that Alice Walker uses
language variation to negotiate power, construct her characters’ identities, challenge the …

… means whereby the individuals‘ identities, worldviews and their … that it is a literature seeking
to understand, negotiate, and … works act like imaginative spaces whereby the experiences …