Compare racial and cultural struggles in Alice Walker’s The Color Essay

Compare racial and cultural struggles in Alice baby-walkers The Color proud as well as Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye.In African-American texts, melanizes are seen as struggling with the senile worlds they live in order to achieve a sense of egotism andIdentity. The texts I come on chosen illustrate the hazards of Westernreligion, Rape, Patriarchal lateralization and Colonial notions of whitesupremacy an intend to show how the protagonists of Alice WalkersThe Color Purple as well as Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye, have a go at it withor crumble due to these issues in their struggle to find theiridentities. The take care for self-identity and self-knowledge is not aneasy task, even more so when you are a black woman and considered amule and a piece of property. Providing an in depth analysis of thesetexts, this essay attempts to illustrate how both of theseAfro-American writers shew and resolve their respectiveprotagonists struggles.Religion is believed by many to serve as a m eans to achieving orfinding self or identity. However, in the Euro-influenced Christianreligion especially, directly after finding cardinals self, one iscalled to deny ones self in the name of a white theology. Humbleyourself and cast your burdens to God they say, for He will make allwrongs right. Logically however, one must askwhat interest does thewhite God (who is especially portray in Afro-American writings suchas The Color Purple and The Bluest Eye as a further extension ofPatriarchal values) have in black people? Moreso, if the Christianbible is so firmly influenced by white man, what interest does theGod it portrays have in black women?In The Color Purple, Celies original intended audience is a white,male God w... ... the voiceless, to overcome the patriarchaloppression and gradually find her Self.BibliographyCutter, Martha. Philomela Speaks Alice Walkers Revisioning of RapeArchetypes in The Color Purple - censorious Essay. MELUS, perish Winter,2000.Davis, Thadious M. Walkers Celebration of Self in SouthernGenerations.Hooks, Bell, typography the Subject Reading The Color Purple, inBloom, H., ed. Modern Critical Views Alice Walker, New York, 1989.Katz, Tamar. Show Me How to Do Like You. Didacticism and EpistolaryForm in The Color Purple. 1988.Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye, London Picador, 1990.Peach, Linden Toni Morrison London MacMillan, 1995.Shakhovtseva, Elena. The Heart of Darkness in a Multicolored WorldThe Color Purple by Alice Walker as a womanist text.Walker, Alice The Color Purple London The Womens Press, 1986.