Alice Walker's The Color Purple is one of the most celebrated and influential novels in American and African American literature, a rare winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for an acclaimed film adaptation and Broadway musical. In celebration of The Color Purple's fortieth anniversary, this volume offers new readings of the classic literary work from biographical, cultural, historical, and spiritual points of view, with additional analyses devoted to art, adaptations, comparative texts, ethics, linguistics, masculinity, motherhood, poetry, and social activism and movements such as Black Lives Matter.
| ISBN: | 9781637000694 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 2022 |
| Author: | Jericho Williams |
| Publisher: | Salem Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 300 pages |
| Series: | Critical Insights |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary reference works General encyclopaedias |
Alice Walker's The Color Purple is one of the most celebrated and influential novels in American and African American literature, a rare winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for an acclaimed film adaptation and Broadway musical. In celebration of The Color Purple's fortieth anniversary, this volume offers new readings of the classic literary work from biographical, cultural, historical, and spiritual points of view, with additional analyses devoted to art, adaptations, comparative texts, ethics, linguistics, masculinity, motherhood, poetry, and social activism and movements such as Black Lives Matter.
The Color Purple features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary reference works, General encyclopaedias
The Color Purple is available in Hardback
The Color Purple was written by Jericho Williams and published by Salem Press
The Color Purple has 300 pages
Yes it is part of Critical Insights series