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02270aam a2200373Ia 4500 001 094AA45476DD11E0934A84F76AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110505010035 008 100823s2011 miua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010034624 020 $a 0737752718 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780737752717 (pbk.) 020 $a 073775270X 020 $a 9780737752700 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BKX $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3573.A425 $b C639 2011 245 0 $a Women's issues in Alice Walker's The color purple / $c Claudia Durst Johnson, book editor. 246 30 $a Alice Walker's The color purple 260 $a Detroit : $b Greenhaven Press, $c c2011. 300 $a 163 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Social issues in literature 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-157) and index. 505 0 $a Background on Alice Walker -- Walker's childhood, education, and crusade for African American women -- Alice Walker's childhood sense of betrayal -- Feeling like an outsider -- The Color Purple and women's issues -- From being dominated to taking charge -- Being deprived of a mother's bond -- The myth of the rape and silencing of Philomela informs The Color Purple -- Walker revises traditional gender roles -- Trading male literary traditions for female oral ones -- Walker's relationship with the African American male -- Folk art as a means to female survival -- Male cruelty leads to positive changes -- Centering on women but ignoring race and economics -- The Color Purple is a disservice to Black women -- Contemporary perspectives on women's issues -- Women achieve social change through folk art -- Domestic violence retains cultural momentum worldwide -- Conflicting feminist ideologies among Black women -- A Black celebrity decides to make her sexual orientation known. 600 10 $a Walker, Alice, $d 1944- $t Color purple. 650 0 $a African American women in literature. 700 1 $a Johnson, Claudia Durst, $d 1938- 830 0 $a Social issues in literature. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405012054.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150505014236.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20110505010621.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=094AA45476DD11E0934A84F76AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search