International Journal of English Literature and Culture

IJELC

ISSN:2360-7831

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 9(6), pp. 188-203, November 2021

 ISSN: 2360-7831

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijelc2021021

 

Review

 

Culture as a Barrier to learning English as a Second Language (ESL): A Case study of College of Agriculture, Gujba and College of Administrative and Business Studies, Potiskum

 

Sènakpon Adelphe Fortuné AZON

 

Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Abomey-Calavi, Department of English/GRAD Laboratory PO Box : 2879 Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic.

Email: fortuneazon@gmail.com/senakponazon@yahoo.fr Tel: 00229 97512040

Accepted 14 November 2021

Abstract

 

Through the fictional characters of Alice Walker’s The color purple, this paper analyzes the social condition of African American females and the silent, mostly unseen violence they are exposed to. It focuses on the tridimensional challenges these women face, othered by sex, race, and class, as a social category deprived of voice and agency. It uses the womanist theory for its analysis of the novel’s text and comes to the conclusion, following the dynamics of the female characters of the book, that a collectively sustained fight, fecundated by love and understanding, is the soundest way to liberate both oppressed and oppressors.

 

Keywords: The color purple, womanism, violence on females, oppression, African American females  


 

Cite This Article As: AZON, S.A.F (2021). From Othering to Self-Naming: A Womanist Reading of the Black Female Characters of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 9(6):198-203