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Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels, Robbie Jean Walker
Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels, Robbie Jean Walker
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Various strategies for coping have surfaced in the uncertain, arduous, and frequently faltering struggle by black Americans for equality of opportunity, coping strategies characterized variously as carefully considered judgments or mere reactions devoid of ideological commitment. These efforts have engaged the attention of historians, sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, and other scholars motivated by a perceived obligation to explicate the nature of the struggle and articulate viable modes for ameliorating the effects of discrimination. Literary artists have also manifested a similar interest by using the medium of imaginative literature to illuminate and dramatize the realities of the historical situation.
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Otis L. Scott
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Otis L. Scott
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Intersecting the tools of psychological and sociological research which attempt to explain real human behavior with the tools of the novelist which attempt to portray a fictional accounting of human behavior, Walker presents an analytical model for examining the coping behaviors of three women in two novels of Alice Walker: The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple.
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Mary F. Sisney
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Mary F. Sisney
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
An examination of the coping strategies of vulnerable and victimized women characters in Alice Walker's fiction does suggest possibilities for coping with racial oppression. The most oppressed woman in Walker's fiction, however, is not Mem, Margaret, or Celie, but Sofia, the wife of Harpo, Celie's stepson in The Color Purple. Certainly Sofia is one of those "women who are cruelly exploited, spirits and bodies mutilated, relegated to the most narrow and confining lives, sometimes driven to madness." But she is not brutalized by her husband. Her tormentors are much more powerful and, therefore, much more frightening.
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Janice W. Clemmer
Critique [Of Implications For Survival: Coping Strategies Of The Women In Alice Walker's Novels By Robbie Jean Walker], Janice W. Clemmer
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Overall, the author presents an interesting, readable concept. Considering the popularity of Alice Walker's prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, and its acclaim since being made into a movie, a wider audience and interest in black Americans will pique prospective reader interest in the article.