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Tucker,Lindsey . "Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Emergent Woman, Emergent Text ." Black American Literature Forum 22.1 (1988): 81-95. Depaul Umiversity Chicago,IL. May 5, 2009 http://www.jstor.com/.

Alice Walker, aware of black women as a particularly muted group, has addressed herself in much of her work to the problem of the black woman as a creator. "You'd better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kil your mammy" These words, uttered by the presumed farther who is also the rapist of his daughter and who has twice impregnated her, astablish not only the primacy of a male text, but also convey the essence of patriarchal repression-a silencing of the young Celie that leaves no recourse but communication with a transcendent white male diety. Celie needs to be able to name in order to establish selfhood.Quilting in particular operates as a rich metaphor for Walker because it involves the making of a useful object form material which is customarily regarded as worthlelss: scraps and throwaways. needlework is also the means by which Nettie uncovers the proof of Celie's maternity. Having become intrgued by the quilting of the Olinka, the children's adoptive mother decides to begin a quilt, and in hunting for scraps for it Nettie comes upon the material that Corrine had purchased when Celie and the adoptive years before.

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Hamilton,cynthia . "Alice Walker's Politics or the Politics of The Color Purple" Journal of Black Studies vol. 18.3(1988): 379-391. Depaul Umiversity Chicago,IL. May 18, 2009 http://www.jstor.com/.

in this atmosphere it is safe to return to the Moynihan thesis; it is safe for white American to exonerate the black matriarchy and for lack men to denounce it; safe to look at dereriorating black family life and proclaim its cause as the historcally mounting antagonism between black men and women. only though individual initiative, she implies, can the solutions be found: women must find their solutions outside the home and motherhood, in enterprise, entertainment, and education.All of these writers miss theirs is not the vision of a new society,
but rather the old society in black and now female face. in fact that may be the very issue that ought to be addressed. it is the voice of the victim, particularly the victim of rape. the resulting degradation has manifested itself in particular socioeconomic conditions for blacks and more specifically to a set of stereotypes to explain and characterize black women.in attempting to break away from these stereotypes to find their own historial subject, black women writers have explored the idea of women as victims, of their own anger and frustration, of genderlessness in a world dominated by gender roles. some may argue that Walker has not used stereotypes but rather "metephors" to point out irony in what others see as "the progress of the group." yet another irony in the treatment of the female characters in the book concerns "motherhood."