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Artists' Power in Works by Toni Morrison and J.D. Salinger

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

Writing Style in Alice Walker's When the Other Dancer is the Self

me turn on the one child at the school who continually calls me one-eyed bitch" (Walker). Her story is powerful, intimate, and inc...

A Symbolism Analysis of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

The Color Purple, Comparing 2 Critical Approaches

This essay contrasts that similarities and differences between the way that Shanym Fiske and Sonal Singh and Sushma Gupta address...

The Color Purple

about life, meeting Shug who is her husbands lover. She grows stronger and more intelligent as the story progresses and in the end...

"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker and Identifying Culture

to cultural identity that is equally passionate to her mothers stance. She believes that identity cannot be realized fully withou...

Alice Walker’s Coming Apart

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and the Character of Dee

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence, 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker and Families

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

'Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self' by Alice Walker

immersed in her appearance. And, then comes the accident that will change her life and her perception of herself. Up until the ...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Alice Walker's Crusade Against Female Genital Mutilation

This paper examines the crusade against female genital mutilation. The author cites Alice Walker's book, Anything We Love Can Be ...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker, 'El Tonto del Barrio by Jose Armas and Values

Material objects and work as intrinsic and extrinsic values are discussed in a comparative analysis of these stories consisting of...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Relationships

In five pages this paper examines how Celie's identity was molded by her relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. There ...

Differential Feminism in Morrison and Walker

This paper outlines the differences between views of feminism seen in Toni Morison's, Sula, and Alice Walker's, The Color Purple. ...

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker and Re-Vision

In seven pages re-vision is defined in concept and then associated with the womanism concept in an analysis of Alice Walker's In S...

Alice Walker's Emphasis on Womanism

This nine page essay explores the theme of womanism that characterizes both Alice Walker's life and her writings. Meaning and app...

The Language and the Quilt in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....

The Afrocentricism of Dee in 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

then her family and has been divorcing herself from them for quite sometime. When Dee arrives she is decked out in bright...

Slavery's 'Long Arm' and the Literature of African Americans

In six pages the enslavement of African American females as depicted in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Toni Mo...

Hurston's Feminist Influence for Alice Walker

This essay discusses the influence of Zora Neale Hurston in regards to Alice Walker's perspective on black oral tradition and femi...

Female Sexuality According to Kingston and Wolf

This paper examines articles by Maxine H. Kingston and Naomi Wolf, and discusses how society reacts to female sexuality. This fiv...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

Chinese Women's Roles in Bone by Fae Myenne Ng and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles in Chinese society and in immigrant families are depicted in the...

Depiction of Women in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

realities that Celie is born into and must grow up with. She is poor and must essentially raise children that are not hers, give u...