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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateFeb 15, 2019
    ISBN9780028666303
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"

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      A Study Guide (New Edition) for Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" - Gale

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      The Color Purple

      Alice Walker

      1982

      Introduction

      Alice Walker's 1982 novel The Color Purple was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award, gaining Walker lasting international notoriety. The novel is among the most highly regarded works of American literature, combining the struggles of one woman to overcome a lifetime of abuse with global topics ranging across women's rights, race relations, gender identity, domestic violence, and poverty. Through letters first written to God and then to her long-lost sister, Nettie, Celie, an uneducated black woman living in rural Georgia, learns to love herself after enduring repeated rapes, beatings, and insults meant to keep her under the thumb of the men in her life. With the aid of the traveling blues singer Shug Avery, Celie throws off the yoke of her husband and becomes her own woman. As a testament to the novel's inspirational power, it has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, has sold over five million copies, and was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film as well as a Tony Award–winning musical.

      Author Biography

      Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 1944. The youngest of eight children, she was blinded in her right eye at the age of eight when one of her brothers accidentally shot her with a BB gun. She attended East Putnam Consolidated for primary and middle school, then graduated as valedictorian from Butler-Baker High School in 1961. Eatonton was racially segregated throughout Walker's childhood, and Butler-Baker was the only school in town that accepted black students. She attended Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, before transferring to Sarah Lawrence, where she graduated in 1965. During college she developed a passion for writing and joined the civil rights movement. After working briefly in the New York City Department of Welfare, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi, to work at the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. There she met and married Melvyn Leventhal, with whom she had a daughter, Rebecca Grant. Theirs was the first interracial marriage in the state's history. The couple divorced in 1976.

      Media Adaptations

      Walker maintains a website at http://alicewalkersgarden.com/.

      The Color Purple was released as an audiobook by Recorded Books in 2009, narrated by Walker and with a run time of eight hours and twelve minutes.

      The Color Purple was adapted into a 2005 Broadway musical starring LaChanze and Elisabeth Withers, with book by Marsha Norman and lyrics by Stephen Bray, Brenda Russell, and Allee Willis. It premiered at Atlanta's Alliance Theater in 2004.

      The Color Purple (PG-13) was adapted into a 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Menno Meyjes, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover. The film was produced by Amblin Entertainment and Guber-Peters Company.

      Her first publication came in 1967 with the short story To Hell with Dying, published in The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers, a collection edited by Langston Hughes. She published a collection of poetry titled Once in 1968. Her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, was released in 1970, followed by Meridian in 1976. Her short-story collection You Can't Keep a Good

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