Spiritual captive: examining the parallels between slavery and religion in The Color Purple.

• Main Author: Tay, Cheryl Shuyuan.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46385
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, we follow Celie’s quest for selfhood and independence through her letters addressed first to God and later to her sister Nettie. Her letters are the only time we hear her voice and thus they reveal her point of view otherwise unexpressed as she is oppressed by fir...