Celie's Identity Search in The Color Purple The Uplift of an African American Woman Under Double Consciousness
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.272How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- African American; identity; racism; sexism; uplift
- Abstract
Since 1982 when Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple was published, the issue of the protagonist Celie's cultural identity as an African American woman has been discussed by scholars. As an African American woman writer, Alice Walker has a sensitive perception of racial and gender issues about African Americans. In most of her writings, Walker strives for equality, liberty, and independence for African American women. Celie in The Color Purple is a poor and uneducated black girl who later turns into an independent woman with self-esteem. After the introduction of the background of The Color Purple and Alice Walker, this thesis analyzes Celie’s cultural identity in terms of the theory of double consciousness. As an African American, Celie searches for her African root and meanwhile strives for her American identity. Managing to get away from the racial and sexual oppression, Celie finally grows into an independent black woman. After Celie obtains her complete identity of an African American woman, she wins herself a decent life. Celie sets an example of uplift and liberation for African American women.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rongjing Meng PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - Celie's Identity Search in The Color Purple The Uplift of an African American Woman Under Double Consciousness BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1234 EP - 1239 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.272 DO - 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.272 ID - Meng2019/07 ER -