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without struggle: she recognizes that if she chooses to participate in this damaging physical ritual that she will define herself...

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...

In three pages this paper examines the moral importance of fairytales in this discussion of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and T...

who is not incredibly involved in her one daughters life. That daughter is Dee. The other daughter, Maggie, lives with her and the...

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

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...

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

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

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

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...

struggle to find her identity, an African American identity, is obviously influenced by the white society. This is noted when her ...

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

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

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

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

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

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

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

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

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

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...

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

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