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Contents
Author s Note ÷
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: The Color Purple 1
The introduction to this Guide offers a summary of Alice Walker s life
and her major professional achievements as well as an overview of the
Guide s content and lines of enquiry.
CHAPTER ONE 7
The Conception and Reception of The Color Purple
The opening chapter of this Guide examines the conception and reception
of The Color Purple and its adaptations. The first section considers Alice
Walker s commentary on the novel s conception, drawing on her essay
Writing The Color Purple and various interviews. The chapter then exam-
ines a range of reviews of the novel. It includes the influential responses
of Gloria Steinern and Trudier Harris, both of whom established view-
points taken up in later readings of the novel. This section places a
particular focus on those reviews that engaged the issues that would fuel
subsequent debate: the novel s generic identity; its treatment of black
masculinity; its representation of Africa; its Utopian ending. The section
ends by looking at Steven C. Weisenburger s detailed assessment of the
novel s reception and canonization. The final sections of the chapter out-
line responses to Steven Spielberg s controversial cinematic reworking of
The Color Purple and the musical theatre adaptation of the novel.
CHAPTER TWO 27
Defining The Color Purple: The Question of Genre
Chapter Two focuses on the much-contested generic identity of The Color
Purple. Some critics have chosen to investigate Walker s engagement with
the epistolary tradition, while others have considered the novel s creden-
tials as a postmodern slave narrative or folk tale. Some early reviews
vi CONTENTS
confidently placed the novel within a particular tradition and critics
responded by examining the novel s resistance to generic boundaries. The
chapter offers a cross-section of readings by Keith Byerman, Margaret
Walsh, bell hooks, Calvin C. Hernton, Linda S. Kauffman and Molly Hite,
who opens up a new avenue of exploration in her interpretation of The
Color Purple s engagement with romance.
CHAPTER THREE 48
Language and Narrative Poetics in The Color Purple
Chapter Three focuses on Walker s manipulation of language and narra-
tive poetics in The Color Purple. The first section presents readings of the
novel s engagement with the politics of orality and literacy. Celie s letters,
written in black folk speech, have prompted critics to explore possible
tensions between speech and writing in the novel and to debate the level
of agency exercised by Celie both as writer and narrator. Readings in this
section also consider the impact of the shift to Standard English with the
arrival of sister Nettie s letters. This chapter concludes with Henry Louis
Gates, Jr. s, seminal reading of narrative poetics and identity politics in
The Color Purple, Color Me Zora, which examines the doubly voiced
discourse of The Color Purple through analysis of Walker s use of free
indirect discourse.
CHAPTER FOUR 61
Language and Subjectivity in The Color Purple
The readings in Chapter Four focus on the heroine s journey toward auton-
omy and empowerment. The first section looks at interpretations that
chart and explore significant shifts in Celie s apprehension of reality, her
environment, her relationships and her body. In Lettered Bodies and
Corporeal Texts (1988), Wendy Wall shows us the close relationship
between form and theme in The Color Purple by exploring how Celie s
letters embody the tension between unity and fragmentation that is cen-
tral to her self-conception. In Nothing can be sole or whole that has not
been rent : Fragmentation in the Quilt and The Color Purple (1992), Judy
Elsley pursues these issues with close analysis of the novel s imagery.
The second section deals with innovative psychoanalytical readings by
Charles Proudfit and Daniel W. Ross. Although these readings approach
Celie s development from different psychoanalytical perspectives, both
scrutinize the novel s back story and illuminate its significance to Celie s
sense of identity.
CONTENTS v¡¡
CHAPTER FIVE 74
Reading Race in The Color Purple
The much-debated racial politics of The Color Purple are the focus of
Chapter Five. Readers and critics have disagreed widely on the extent to
which the novel engages issues of race. Critics such as Melissa Walker
have argued that Walker s focus is too narrow: she tells the story of the
development of an impoverished black woman, divorcing her from her
context and denying her political awareness. Other critics have read the
novel as a vivid dramatization of the impact of racist ideology on black
communities in America and Africa. This chapter presents readings that
explore the novel s representation of race relations through detailed anal-
ysis of the novel. Readings in the first section of the chapter scrutinize
Walker s approach to race relations in rural Georgia, focusing particularly
on the impact of her characters encounters with racist whites. The con-
tent of Nettie s letters is the focus of the second section of the chapter.
It looks at critical responses to Walker s representation of African cul-
ture and of the impact of Western colonialism. Lauren Berlant s highly
influential reading Race, Gender, and Nation in The Color Purple (1988)
explores the novel s embattled engagement with nationalist discourse
and offers a number of ways of reading its much-debated final scene.
Linda Selzer s sensitive reading of the novel s various cultural encoun-
ters, Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple (1995), delivers valuable
insight into the relationship between the novel s domestic and political
discourses.
CHAPTER SIX 89
Class and Consumerism in The Color Purple
Chapter Six explores Walker s treatment of class in The Color Purple. It
examines opposing understandings of the novel s socio-economic pol-
itics and different interpretations of Celie s economic prosperity and
entrepreneurial success. While critics such as Cynthia Hamilton and
Melissa Walker draw links between the novel s social ideology and 1980s
capitalism, others such as Maroula Joannou provide a defence of Celie s
business by stressing its relational ethos. The chapter also considers
Carl Dix s review of the novel for The Revolutionary Worker and Walker s
response to his observation that the inheritance of private property
is not a viable solution in terms of the masses of poor people. The
chapter closes with Peter Kerry Powers s reading Pa Is Not Our Pa :
Sacred History and Political Imagination in The Color Purple (1995),
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which explores the relationship between Celie s economic progress and
the novel s theological discourse.
CHAPTER SEVEN 104
The Color Purple: Feminist Text?
Chapter Seven addresses issues arising from Walker s self-designated
status as a womanist and the novel s current status as feminist Ur-text.
The chapter begins by considering readings that explore the appeal of the
novel to women from a range of cultural matrices and their embracing of
Celie as a feminist heroine. Trudier Harris questions this categorization
of Celie, arguing that she is too passive to qualify as a feminist heroine.
Gina Michelle Collins s reading of Celie s survival strategies, elaborated
in The Color Purple: What Feminism Can Learn from a Southern Tradi-
tion (1990), is at variance with Harris s views. This first section of the
chapter concludes with the highly influential reading of Christine Froula,
which investigates Walker s engagement with representations of women
in Western literature. The second section of this chapter is concerned
with Walker s place in the African-American women s literary canon. In
particular, it explores Walker s relationship with literary foremother Zora
Neale Hurston, considering comparative readings of The Color Purple and
Hurston s most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The chap-
ter looks at essays by James C. Hall, Diane F. Sadoff and Molly Hite, who
take a close look at the politics of Walker s intertextual relationship with
Hurston.
CHAPTER EIGHT 123
Gender and Sexuality in The Color Purple
The final chapter of this Guide engages with the wealth of critical interest
in the sexual and gender politics of The Color Purple. The first section,
Black Masculinity in The Color Purple, charts opposing responses to
Walker s depiction of black men in the novel. Ralph D. Story and George
Stade argue that Walker relies upon stereotypes in her representation
of male characters, criticize her handling of Albert s redemption and
object to the sidelining of male/female relationships in the novel. As
well as examining evaluations of her male characters, this section also
considers responses to the hostility generated by Walker s gender pol-
itics. Anita Jones and King-Kok Cheung counter criticism of Walker by
suggesting that she leaves us with a tantalizing glimpse of a world
where hegemonic gender and sexual politics have lost their currency.
This section closes with a twenty-first century reading that sheds new
CONTENTS ix
light on some of these issues, Candice Marie Jenkins s Queering Black
Patriarchy: The Salvific Wish and Masculine Possibility in Alice Walker s
The Color Purple (2002). The second section of this chapter focuses
on responses to the novel s sexual politics, with particular emphasis
on queer readings. It considers the reaction to Celie and Shug s rela-
tionship in early reviews and explores more detailed readings by Linda
Abbandonato, bell hooks and Renée C. Hoogland.
Conclusion 141
This book concludes by reflecting on the breadth of academic research
on The Color Purple while also highlighting those neglected dimensions of
the novel which might inspire new readings. The conclusion gives further
consideration to the enduring popularity of Celie s story in the twenty-
first century, looking at responses to the novel and its adaptations which
have been recorded online. It also discusses the long-term impact of
the novel on Walker s literary reputation and the reception of her later
work.
NOTES 146
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 165
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