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@article{173073,
        author = {Dr. Sakunthala},
        title = {Celebration of Black Female Identity: An Analysis of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {2466-2470},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=173073},
        abstract = {A critical exposition of the history of the Black woman’s life and condition shows that as a Black, she has had to endure all the horrors of slavery and, living in a racist society as a worker, she has been the object of continual exploitation. Since times of slavery, Black womanhood had been destroyed, distorted, dismantled and abused with racial, sexual and inhuman practises by black men and white men and women. In the process, they have lost their genuine self and have developed a complexity in themselves. Inspired by the new Women’s Movements, the black woman was urged upon to overcome her long suffering and raised her voice boldly and courageously in her own writings. The novels that emerged during the latter half of the seventies exhibited a strong feminist perspective as black women writers involved themselves in the task of forging powerful and positive images of Black womanhood. The novels of the late seventies and the eighties continue to explore these themes- that sexism must be struggled against in black communities and that sexism is integrally connected to racism},
        keywords = {Womanism, female identity, redefining self, centre stage},
        month = {February},
        }