Woman As A Womanism in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

Name of Author : S.Geetha

Abstract: This paper is an attempt to show the concepts of identity in The Color Purple (1982), by Alice Walker in the light of post-colonialism and the development of womanism as a movement which has presented an alternative to feminism. It advocates inclusiveness instead of exclusiveness, whether it is related to race, class or gender. Womanism provided political framework for colored women and gave them tools in their struggle with patriarchy which imposed restrictive norms and negative stereotypes on them. It also tackled the restrictiveness of feminism which was especially evident in the field of literary scholarship. Womanism is also related to new movements within feminism such as womanist theology and eco-feminism

Keywords : colored, women, feminism, patriarchy, womanism

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