Spiritual captive: examining the parallels between slavery and religion in The Color Purple.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Tay, Cheryl Shuyuan.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2011
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46385
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, we follow Celie’s quest for selfhood and independence through her letters addressed first to God and later to her sister Nettie. Her letters are the only time we hear her voice and thus they reveal her point of view otherwise unexpressed as she is oppressed by fir...