Abstract
General Editor's Preface Introduction: To follow the Hero's Journey Rendering the (Womanist) Hero Brenda R. SMITH: We Need a Hero: African American Female Bildungsromane and Celie's Journey to Heroic Female Selfhood in Alice Walker's The Color Purple Tracy L. BEALER: Making Hurston's Heroine Her Own: Love and Womanist Resistance in The Color Purple Raphael LAMBERT: Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Womanist Folk Tale and Capitalist Fairy Tale Theology of Liberation Patricia ANDUJO: Rendering the African-American Woman's God through The Color Purple Marlon Rachquel MOORE: God is (a) Pussy: The Pleasure Principle and Homo-Spirituality in Shug's Blueswoman Theology Dear God ... Dear Peoples ... Dear Everything R. Erin HUSKEY: Witnessing and Testifying: Transformed Language and Selves in The Color Purple Courtney GEORGE: My Man Treats Me Like a Slave: The Triumph of Womanist Blues over Blues Violence in Alice Walker's The Color Purple Robin E. FIELD: Alice Walker's Revisionary Politics of Rape Uplabdhi SANGWAN: Significance of Sisterhood and Lesbianism in Fiction of Women of Color The Spirit of Space Danielle RUSSELL: Homeward Bound: Transformative Spaces in The Color Purple Turgay BAYINDIR: A House of Her Own: Alice Walker's Readjustment of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own in The Color Purple Kathryn EDNEY: Adapting and Integrating: The Color Purple as Broadway Musical The Classic Beneath the Polemic Apryl DENNY: Alice Walker's Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardson's Pamela in The Color Purple Ping ZHOU: Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple Essay Abstracts About the Authors Index
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