Racial Oppression against African American woman in Selected Novels by Alice Walker

Abstract

The contemporary feminist writer Alice Walker sheds an illumination on the existence of the Black American woman in the American society through some of her works, "The Color Purple", "Meridian" and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland". On one hand Alice Walker tries to make an original character, provide a sound to the black woman in American community during latest era and give them self-assurance spiritually socially and emotionally on the other hand she showed the horrible things in what waythat the African American woman has been endured and represent the pulp of walker's fiction, such as racial bias, patriarchal injustice, domestic brutality, the Civil Right Movement and bondage. Walker devised an expression of black feminism that is aggregation of culture, strength and flexibility in the woman called "Womanism". The author expresses her subjects through by her heroine character to give the person who reads an actual and aware description to send a message to the whole world about the mistreatment, disregarding and multi-faced abuse that the largest number of the Black American females have been undergone to decades. Finally in order to disclose the steady progress and public alterations in lifetime of her heroine's character from silence, self-denial and helpless to self-proof, confrontation and enablement.