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