A STUDY ON THE LITERARY TRANSFORMATION FROM WALKER�S TO SPIELBERG�S, THE COLOR PURPLE

• Main Authors: , ENDANG KUNTI ERAWATI, , Prof. Dr. C. Soebakdi Soemanto, S.U.
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2011
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/88362/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=50177
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

The writer analyzes the process of the Literary Transformation of a novel-based film that is purposefully entitled the same: The Color Purple, from Alice Walker�s (1982) into Steven Spielberg�s (1985). This Literary Transformation is perceived as a balance and its technical shifts from one medium to the other enable readers and audience to reobserve issues of race, culture, gender roles and traditional families. The balance or imbalance in the story is shown in the novel and the film. The incidents of rape, incest and lesbianism depict the imbalance that makes Spielberg shift them in the transformation. Formerly, Walker creates characters in the novel through the normal principle of opposition: black/white, submissive/dominant, male/female and the hegemony/minority. The opposites become the fundamental issues of race and gender. Thus, the disequilibrium of the novel leads readers to reconsider individual character histories and patterns. Accordingly, Spielberg shows his effort to shift the transformation manifestation to conform to the social phenomenon in America in the mid 1980s and the Zeitgeist (the spirit of the era).