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You may know this classic from the 1985 Steven Spielburg film adaptation, but make no mistake, the novel is way more queer! Written by bisexual, black, feminist activist Alice Walker, The Color Purple is a feminist text that emphasizes strong relationships between women, written as a series of letters from the main character, Celie, to her sister. However, in addition to women finding solidarity with each other in opposition to patriarchal oppression, The Color Purple also features a romantic an
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The Color Purple is truly an amazing book and one I wish I could give double the 5 stars to. Having first seen the film on a flight to Vancouver, I knew this would be a good story but I was unnerved by the epistolary approach, the dialect and the first person POV. I need not have worried. It gripped me from the first and became more intense as it progressed. There is so much courage in the face of abuse and tragedy in this novel and it is so uplifting. The ending had me in tears, I was there sha
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Sep 25, 2018
Thuhufa
marked it as to-read
Jan 06, 2020
Stephani
marked it as to-read
