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An analysis of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple". The author describes the themes of the book and provides a critical analysis of the novel. Includes critical reviews of the novel by various writers.

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"Alice Walker is a black American novelist, a short story writer, a poet, a critic and author of children's books. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her controversial novel The Color Purple in 1982. Her concerns and descriptions of the black women's struggle for racial, sexual and political equality are prevalent themes in her works. Many of her novels focus on the effects of poverty and racism. In her characters she supports the bond between women. Some critics criticize her for the unfavorable portrait of black men because in many of her themes, black women are ruled and controlled by black men. Most of her novels are set in the deep south and contain its actual use of black dialect."

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