The Color Purple

Paperback, 245 pages

English language

Published July 30, 1987 by Woman's Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7043-3905-7
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OCLC Number:
476921437
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Dear God: I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me...

So begins Alice Walker's touching, complex and engrossing new novel, the story of two sisters in the harsh, segregated world of the Deep South between the wars. Celie has been raped by the man she calls her father; her two children are taken away from her; her beloved young sister Nettie has run away. She is given in marriage to Albert, to look after his children. She has no one to talk to but God.

Until Shug Avery the singer, the magic woman from Albert's past, re-enters his life. Through her, Celie discovers not the pain of rivalry but the love and support of women; she rediscovers Nettie, and hope. And The Color Purple becomes a celebration of liberation, …

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Violett als Widerstand: Mein Weg durch The Color Purple

Alice Walkers Die Farbe Lila lese ich als stilles, machtvolles Herzstück der Amerikanischen Literatur. In Briefen, zuerst an Gott, später an die Schwester Nettie, höre ich Celies Stimme: brüchig, vorsichtig, dann fester. Das Briefroman-Format zwingt mich zur Nähe; ich werde Mitleser, Mitwisser, manchmal hilfloser Zeuge. Hinter jedem kurzen Satz spüre ich eine lange Geschichte von Schmerz und der zähen Suche nach Würde.

Ich begleite Celie durch ein Leben, das von patriarchaler Gewalt, Rassismus und ökonomischer Enge geprägt ist. Doch Walker öffnet Räume: Shug Avery, sinnlich, frei, wird für Celie zur Lehrmeisterin der Selbstachtung; Sofia verkörpert trotziges Nein-Sagen; Netties Berichte aus Afrika weiten den Blick, ohne das Lokale zu überblenden. Was mich bewegt, ist der stille Umbau der Welt: nicht durch Pathos, sondern durch kleine, konkrete Handlungen – nähen, arbeiten, schreiben, benennen. Die Farbe Violett wird zum Sinnbild für Aufmerksamkeit: die Fähigkeit, Schönheit wahrzunehmen, auch wenn sie kaum zu …

Review of 'The Color Purple' on 'Storygraph'

Set in the southern US in the early 1900s, two sisters separated as kids reach out in letters over 20 years covering Celie’s abuse and troubled marriage before she meets a singer, Shug Avery, a woman who helps Celie free herself from her past.

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From messed up family, no meaning to life besides staying alive.. the book tells the journeys of two sisters with different characters and thrives, but the love between them is genuine even after decades of letter sending that don't reach the recipient at all or in time. A story of self discovery and racist views and attitudes considered normal. But most of all the story of the two sisters separated and brought together again.

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