Writing as a Means of Female Resistance and Empowerment
Keywords:
Women’s Writing, Resistance, Empowerment, Identity, Marginality, Literary History.Abstract
This paper explores how women use writing as a tool of rebellion, taking Alice Walker’s brilliant and disturbing 1982 novel ‘The Colour Purple’ as an example. The use of deeply personal narratives to not only make peace with their own struggles but to also share these experiences and inspiring a slew of similar works, Walker and her contemporaries have created a space that openly challenges the blatant sexism that inhabits the literary field.
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