Ritual as a Means of Black Solidarity in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar

Abstract

The Temple of My Familiaris depiction of the life of black characters form the South who constantly engage themselves in traditional myth, music, story telling and so in throughout the novel to resist the whites domination and create peaceful harmony or social solidarity and spiritual unity among the blacks. . . . the writer depicts the life of black characters from the American South who constantly engage themselves in music, storytelling, bringing mythical symbol to avoid traditional system of white domination and to assert a philosophy of social solidarity and spiritual unity among the blacks.