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The Color Purple
Alice Walker and The Color Purple
Taking place in 1930s Georgia, Alice Walker's The Color Purple is an epistolary novel that gives an insight into the life of African-American women.
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Context of The Color Purple Having experienced first-hand the struggle of living under segregation, Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle
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Alice Walker (born 1944) is a celebrated American novelist and short story writer. Born into a large family as one of eight siblings in Georgia, she rose to prominence as an author and civil rights activist. Dive in to the The Color Purple text guide
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