Abuses in "The Color Purple"
Exploring the Multidimensional Kinship of Women under the Abusive Space in The Color Purple Abstract : The basic focus of this paper is to attempt a critical study of how Alice Walker, the most famous Afro-American women writer explored the State Apparatuses under the theory of Marxism and Feminism. Alice Walker converges Marxist and feminist perspectives. Walker also demonstrates the concept of the hegemony of society through the women’s character in the novel. In associating with the Apparatuses, it demonstrates how the family and community resulted from the hegemony within the female characters of the novel. The most notable women’s novel of the 1980s The Color Purple in which Walker delineates women in different ways deprived of their freedom, rights, and happiness, enforced to live their life by sacrificing their needs and own desires for male domination family as well as society by bestowing their heads in the novel men hold superiority over women along with th...