The Color Purple
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Bloom, Harold, ed. Alice Walker. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.
Dieke, Ikenna, ed. Critical Essays on Alice Walker. Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut, 1999.
Kaplan, Carla. The Erotics of Talk: Women’s Writing and Feminist Paradigms. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996.
Light, Alison. “Fear of the Happy Ending: The Color Purple, Reading and Racism.” In English and Cultural Studies, ed. M. Green. London: Chelsea House, 1987.
Smith, Dinita. “Celie, You a Tree.” Nation, September 4, 1982.
Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. New York: Harvest Books, 1983.
———. The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult. New York: Washington Square Press, 1997.
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