Searching For a Voice A Study of Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Abstract

Abstract:

This paper  focuses  on the experiences of black African American women who have survived sexual violence and physical oppression in the age of slavery ( the nineteenth century) . Black women  seek to find their freedom through expressing their voices . Thus they fight bravely to express themselves ''their voices''. And they try to understand how to be  women, American, Black , and a variety of other things at once while remaining true to their true selves. Through the inspection of and encounter with these continuously warring elements, the African-American race has defined and redefined the standards of being Black. Many black American women have persistent over the years to work towards abolition the unfairness of race and gender among other systems of oppression that they have experienced at home, at work, in their communities and within the overriding culture as a whole .