Exploration of Counterculture in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
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Abstract
The Color Purple by an activist American Alice Walker has been the milestone in the
field of the novels of protest. It radically comes up with the deconstruction and
endeavoring towards the new structures in the traditional discourses and power
operations within the American society. Depicting the lives and their constraints
caused by the various discourses in rural Georgia in 1930s, the novel comes up with
the sense of counterculture. Using the socially marginalized and mistreated female
character Celie as her mouthpiece, Walker motivates female of the society for the
journey from innocence to awareness of identity of the female and underscores the
need of female unity and envisions the world of independent women who could
challenge the patriarchal domination anytime. The novel deconstruct the role of the
husband of the society, deconstruct the masculine notion of god as represented in the
Bible and undermines the heterosexuality by the males think women their possession.