Alice Walker's The color purple

Editor's Note

Introduction

Celie in the Looking Glass: The Desire for Selfhood in The Color Purple

Race, Gender, and Nation in The Color Purple

Sifting Through the Controversy: Reading The Color Purple

"What She Got to Sing About?": Comedy and The Color Purple

The Purple Colour of Walker Women: Their Journey from Slavery to Liberation

Celie's Search for Identity: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Reading of Alice Walker's The Color Purple

With Ears to Hear and Eyes to See: Alice Walker's Parable The Color Purple

Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple

Philomela Speaks: Alice Walker's Revisioning of Rape Archetypes in The Color Purple

Sewing, Quilting, Knitting: Handicraft and Freedom in The Color Purple and A Women's Story

Chronology

Contributors

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index