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Article: Works of Alice Walker: Critical Commentary On The Color Purple
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Walker, Alice
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary On The Color Purple
Sources and Themes
What Alice Walker has told us about her sources for The Color Purple is
useful in understanding the novel. Her plans for her work in the 1970s, as
discussed with critic Mary Helen Washington, suggested that her third novel
would begin where Meridian had ended, that it would be contemporary in
setting. Yet, The Color Purple is set in the early part of the twentieth
century and could be called a historical novel. Walker has said that her third
novel represented a detour; still it is a contemporary novel in that it
addresses contemporary issues with which Afro-American women's literature and
the ...