Compare racial and cultural struggles in Alice Walker’s The Color Essay

Compare racial and cultural struggles in Alice baby carriages The Color discolour as well as Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye.In African-American texts, blacks are seen as struggling with thepatriarchal worlds they live in order to achieve a sense of Self andIdentity. The texts I have chosen illustrate the hazards of Westernreligion, Rape, Patriarchal Dominance and Colonial notions of whitesupremacy an intend to show how the protagonists of Alice footnotesThe Color Purple as well as Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye, cope withor crumble due to these issues in their struggle to find theiridentities. The appear for self-identity and self-knowledge is not aneasy task, even more so when you are a black woman and considered amule and a piece of property. Providing an in abstruseness analysis of thesetexts, this essay attempts to illustrate how both of theseAfro-American writers depict and resolve their respectiveprotagonists struggles.Religion is believed by many to serve as a means to ach ieving orfinding self or identity. However, in the Euro-influenced Christianreligion especi entirelyy, directly after finding ones self, one iscalled to decline ones self in the name of a white God. Humbleyourself and cast your burdens to God they say, for He will make allwrongs right. Logically however, one must askwhat interest does thewhite God (who is especially portrayed in Afro-American writings suchas The Color Purple and The Bluest Eye as a further extension ofPatriarchal values) have in black people? Moreso, if the Christianbible is so heavily influenced by white man, what interest does theGod it portrays have in black women?In The Color Purple, Celies original intended audience is a white,male God w... ... the voiceless, to overcome the patriarchaloppression and gradually find her Self.BibliographyCutter, Martha. Philomela Speaks Alice Walkers Revisioning of RapeArchetypes in The Color Purple - Critical Essay. MELUS, Fall Winter,2000.Davis, Thadious M. Walkers Celebrati on of Self in SouthernGenerations.Hooks, Bell, Writing the Subject Reading The Color Purple, inBloom, H., ed. Modern Critical Views Alice Walker, New York, 1989.Katz, Tamar. extract Me How to Do Like You. Didacticism and EpistolaryForm in The Color Purple. 1988.Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye, London Picador, 1990.Peach, Linden Toni Morrison London MacMillan, 1995.Shakhovtseva, Elena. The Heart of Darkness in a Multicolored populationThe Color Purple by Alice Walker as a womanist text.Walker, Alice The Color Purple London The Womens Press, 1986.