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"The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into the experiences of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, and Sofia"--
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The Color Purple (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Alice Walker
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Step into the captivating world of Alice Walker's celebrated novel, "The Color Purple," as it comes to life on the big screen under the masterful direction of Steven Spielberg. This insightful book delves deep into the cinematic adaptation of the novel, exploring every aspect of the movie from its directorial choices to its visual aesthetics. Through a series of in-depth chapters, readers will unravel the intricate layers of this timeless tale and...
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Three powerful novels by Alice Walker, beginning with her masterpiece The Color Purple, and following characters as they are drawn into critical confrontations with history The Color Purple is Walker's stunning, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family....
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker, which tells the story of Celie, a poor, uneducated African-American woman living in the rural Georgia in the first half of the 20th century. After being abused by the man she calls her father, married against her will to a man she does not love and forcibly separated from her beloved sister Nettie, Celie begins to despair of her condition. However, thanks in large part...
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A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
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Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker's epistolary...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alice Walker. Titles in this study guide include The Color Purple, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, The Third Life of Grange, Revolutionary Petunias, Once, Meridian, and In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Good Night Willie Lee, and I'll See You in the Morning.
As a world renowned, author of African American literature, Walker established...
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Gültan Kışanak, a Kurdish journalist and former MP, was elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır in 2014. Two years later, the Turkish state arrested and imprisoned her. Her story is remarkable, but not unique. While behind bars, she wrote about her own experiences and collected similar accounts from other Kurdish women, all co-chairs, co-mayors and MPs in Turkey; all incarcerated on political grounds.
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind...
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In Walker's follow-up to The Color Purple, webs of characters are drawn toward critical confrontations with history In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie's own granddaughter...
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"Gentle, sensitive...sometimes funny, occasionally sad, and ultimately life-affirming."
-Winston-Salem Journal
The Sweet By and By is the story of five southern women of different ages and from very different backgrounds whose lives come together in a journey of courage, hope, and humor. First-time author Todd Johnson-who was a co-producer with Oprah Winfrey of Broadway's The Color Purple-makes an indelible literary mark with a debut novel that...
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"Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling...
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers tells about plants, animals, and rocks that are purple and how colors work in the natural world. Includes picture glossary"--
19) Violet
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Early readers are introduced to the color purple. Simple sentences accompany engaging pictures.
20) Purple
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Early readers are introduced to the color purple. Simple sentences accompany engaging pictures.