Journal articles: 'Walker, Alice, 1944- The color purple'

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KOYUNCU CANİŞ, Fatma. "THE COLOR PURPLE BY ALICE WALKER IN TERMS OF FEMINIST CRITICISM." Journal Of History School 7, no. XX (January 1, 2014): 429–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.14225/joh646.

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Anderson, Tiffany M. B. "Alice Walker – The Color Purple: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism." European Legacy 18, no. 3 (June 2013): 371–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2013.773497.

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Sun, Lei. "Extolling Blackness: The African Culture in The Color Purple." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 1 (January 20, 2017): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n1p13.

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Alice Walker, advocates African cultures in her epistolary novel The Color Purple. Underscoring the fact that quilt-making has an ancient history in the black community and presents the African tradition of folk art and the rich legacy of visual images in African culture, Walker employs the image of quilts and quilt-making to associate with the symbolic meaning of sisterhood, family history and self-creation. Also, she depicts Shug as the most popular character as a blues singer in the novel, to indicate that she acknowledges her mode of thinking that blues as one secular African tradition can deliver its spiritual power to African Americans.

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Arpita Sawhney. "The Role of Self-discovery in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple." Think India 22, no. 3 (September 28, 2019): 2218–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/think-india.v22i3.8695.

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Alice Walker was an American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture. Her novels, most notably The Color Purple (1982), are focused on the struggles of black people, particularly women, and their lives in a racist, sexist, and violent society. Walker’s Pulitzer prize and American Book award-winning novel, The Color Purple, marks the apex of her career. It gained international prominence, as the writer did herself. Her novels, short stories, poetry and essays are all about a search for truth. The Color Purple is unique in its pre-occupation with spiritual survival and with exploring the oppressions, insanities and triumphs of black women.

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Peteghem-Rouffineau, Isabelle Van. "Alice Walker ou l’écriture de la résilience." Études littéraires 38, no. 1 (March 19, 2007): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/014819ar.

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Résumé Les romans d’Alice Walker (Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar) témoignent de la capacité qu’ont les vaincus, ces anti-héros, à résister à l’oppression et à en inverser les signes. En tant que femme africaine américaine, elle a su transformer l’héritage de l’aliénation originelle de l’esclavage en victoire ultime, celle de la survie d’une voix puissante envers et contre tous. Le sujet « walkérien » affirme tout d’abord sa parole en se dissociant du discours idéologique fanatique du Black Power. Les héroïnes prennent corps en s’opposant au mirage archaïque de la fonction paternelle. Enfin, l’humour permet de se jouer de l’arbitraire du signe en se réappropriant le langage.

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Wu, Lianghong. "Reading The Color Purple from the Perspective of Ecofeminism." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 8 (August 1, 2019): 965. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0908.11.

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Alice Waker is one of the most influential black female writers in modern America. The summit of her literary achievements, The Color Purple, wins her three awards since its publication and becomes a milestone in the black literature. This paper sums up the three stages of the relationship between human, women in particular, and nature---fragmentation, over-sewing and wholeness. In this novel, Walker attempts to arouse black women’s self-consciousness by showing the fragmentation state of black women and nature under oppressions. She looks for ways of oversewing the broken souls to realize the wholeness of survival. Advocating people to attach importance to the problems of women and environment, Walker expresses her ecofeminist consciousness to establish a harmonious society where human and nature, men and women could co-existent peacefully.

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Veronesi, Raquel Barros. "A REESCRITURA DE THE COLOR PURPLE NO CINEMA:." Belas Infiéis 4, no. 1 (August 19, 2015): 169–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v4.n1.2015.11319.

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Neste trabalho, analisamos a tradução das personagens Celie e Shug do romance de Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982), para sua adaptação fílmica de 1985, dirigido por Steven Spielberg. Especificamente, investigamos a reescritura do relacionamento homoafetivo entre as personagens, no cinema, uma vez que se trata do amor entre duas mulheres negras no início do século XX. Diante de aspectos suscitadores de discussões polêmicas – ser mulher, ser negra, ser homossexual – percebemos a dificuldade de adaptar tais personagens para o meio cinematográfico. Acreditamos, portanto, que, devido a exigências mercadológicas diferentes das que regem a Literatura e considerando a época em que foi lançado, o filme suaviza algumas cenas em que Celie e Shug demonstram o amor que sentem uma pela outra. Assim, utilizando os Estudos Descritivos da Tradução (TOURY, 2012), objetivamos investigar quais estratégias foram utilizadas no processo de tradução de situações que demonstram esta relação afetiva, observando como o filme lida com a proposta de Walker, que busca evidenciar a mulher negra e sua trajetória de luta contra a discriminação gênero-racial.

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Yusak, Nailil Muna. "GOD IN ALICE WALKER�S THE COLOR PURPLE; A PARADOX OF THE DIVINE." EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture 1, no. 2 (August 31, 2016): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/e.1.2.129-142.

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Over time, as secularization took root in Black churches during the CivilRights era, the prevalent framework in understanding African Americanspirituality discourse has shifted from theology to sociology. This paper triesto discern this major shift from the black literature perspective. It aims todiscuss the main charachers� paradoxical state of mind in understandingGod in the novel The Color Purple. The 1982 Pulitzer Prize for fiction winneris organized around an intimate conversation between two femalecharacters, Celie and Shug Avery, whose understanding of God werechallanged by complexity of sexism and racism in the black family.Sociological approach is adopted to understand the characters� dynamicconcept of God. Discussion in this paper suggested that Alice Walker�snaturalist theology is embodied in Celie and Shug Avery�s conceptualizationof God in the novel.Keywords: Black Theology, The Color Purple, God in Black Literature.

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Arıkan, Arda. "An ecocritical reading of flowers in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple." International Journal of Human Sciences 12, no. 2 (July 8, 2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/ijhs.v12i2.3342.

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Flowers are one of the most popular motifs in verse as well as in prose. Many critics have noted that nature is at the core of Alice Walker’s epistolary novel The Color Purple (1983) in which depicting or writing about flowers requires special attention. However, in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, flowers are depicted and written about to convey strong negative emotions as well as positive ones. In this study, how flowers are depicted or written about in the novel is studied through an ecocritical lens. I argue that Walker’s use of flowers provides examples of the vitality of a hopeful existence especially when various flowers mentioned in the novel are considered along with the seasonal changes organically affecting such floral richness. I equally argue that Walker uses flowers to show the change experienced by the major character, Celie. In that sense, Walker’s flowers are in direct coexistence with the major character, Celie.

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Priestley, Sue. "Reviews : The Color Purple ALICE WALKER The Women 's Press, 1982; £3.95, pb; pp 245." Probation Journal 32, no. 1 (March 1985): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026455058503200116.

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Sun, Lei, and Xiangyong Kong. "Africa, the Sweet Home of Roots or the Dark Continent of Primitiveness?: Alice Walker’s Africa in The Color Purple." English Language and Literature Studies 10, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v10n1p26.

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With the detection from the post-colonial perspective, there is a certain amount of truth in the statement that Alice Walker’s The Color Purple sometimes reveals Eurocentric ideology, even though she overtly makes efforts for Africa and Africans. The way in which she delineates Nettie’s missionary job in Olinka, confirms habitual Western suspicions about equality between Europe and Africa. With the reexamination of the depiction about the African continent Nettie sketches out, additionally, we might notice Walker’s intention of setting up Africa as a foil to Europe, to some extent, echoes Said’s orientalist discourse.

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Dukut, Ekawati Marhaenny, and Nuki Dhamayanti. "CELIE: A PORTRAYAL OF AN AFRO-AMERICAN WOMAN'S REJECTION OF TRADITIONAL VALUES." Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature 2, no. 2 (August 21, 2017): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.24167/celt.v2i2.760.

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The world of literature can be a medium of expressing the writer's expressions and ideas. Universal topics such as, love, death, and war often become subject mailers in the world of literature. In the novel, of The Color Purple. Alice Walker describes the oppression experienced by Afro American women in the female characters of Celie, Nellie, Shug Avery, Sofia, and Mary Agnes who faced sexual discrimina!ions in a patriarchal society. Womanhood, education, and lesbianism are factors that help the Afro American women to free themselves from traditional values. The Color Purple puts into words the process of its main character, Celie, who tries to reject and escape from the male domination of her world. The other Afro American women characters that help Celie to find her selfidentity represent the manifestation of the rejection of the traditional values. This article. which uses the socio-historical alld feminism approach. is intended to analyse the Afro-American women's rejection of traditional values by focusing on the major character of' Walker's The Color Purple. Celie. as she develops from being a victim of traditional values to the rejoiceful discovery of her selfidentity.

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Sardar, Qurratulain, and Rafique A. Memon. "Achiever of Higher Self: A Humanistic Study of Celie’s Character in the Novel, Color Purple." International Journal of English Linguistics 9, no. 6 (November 12, 2019): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v9n6p373.

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A. Maslow in his book Motivation and Personality (1954) presents the five-stage hierarchy Model, emphasizes on the fulfilment of needs to achieving higher self. Based on textual analysis, the study demonstrates how the protagonist Celie, from the novel Color Purple written by Alice Walker, follows the gratification of needs in edict to connect the higher self. The evolution of character’s personality has been appraised thoroughly at each level, gives an equal attentive of new visions into her conduct and relationships with other characters. The Colloquial African-American dialect of the text is taken metaphorically, formulates the scarcity of needs created by external milieu. It is inimitably distinguished to identify the one of the major forces after her unusual, capricious and incoherent behaviors are usual social human drives.

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Musanga, Terrence, and Theophilus Mukhuba. "Toward the Survival and Wholeness of the African American Community: A Womanist Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982)." Journal of Black Studies 50, no. 4 (March 15, 2019): 388–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934719835083.

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This article attempts a womanist reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Walker provides a gendered perspective of what it means to be “black,” “ugly,” “poor,” and a “woman” in America. This perspective is ignored in the majority of male-authored African American texts that privilege race and class issues. Being “black,” “poor,” “ugly,” and a “woman,” underscores the complexity of the African American woman’s experience as it condemns African American women into invisibility. However, Walker’s characters like Celie, Sofia, Shug, Mary Agnes, and Nettie fight for visibility and assist each other as African American women in their quest for freedom and independence in a capitalist, patriarchal, and racially polarized America. This article therefore maps out Celie’s evolution from being a submissive and uneducated “nobody” (invisible/voiceless) to a mature and independent “someone” (visibility/having a voice). Two important womanist concepts namely “family” and “sisterhood” inform this metamorphosis as Walker underscores her commitment to the survival and wholeness of African American people.

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Budi, Levita Setya, and Dewi Widyastuti. "SELF-DETERMINATION TO FIGHT OPPRESSIONS AS SEEN IN THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE COLOR PURPLE BY ALICE WALKER." Journal of Language and Literature 17, no. 2 (October 1, 2017): 116–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.2017.170202.

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Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María, and Cristina Amalia Gavilla Lundeg. "Enfrentar las estructuras de opresión: sumisión, resiliencia y resistencia en Los ojos más azules y El color púrpura." Sincronía XXV, no. 79 (January 3, 2021): 345–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/sincronia.axxv.n79.19a21.

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This paper focuses on and compares several aspects of the novels The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Color Purple by Alice Walker. This analysis is preceded by a brief historical background of the times when the action of the novels take place, necessary to understand the history of racial discrimination and the prejudices that sustain this discrimination to our days. The discursion shows the main female characters reacting towards the different forms of oppression and to the systematic suppression of the necessary conditions for the normal development of their self- esteem as human beings. The self-esteem of some of them is so low that they cannot recover; others rise and are able to recover their lost self-esteem. We conclude that the lives of the characters in The Bluest Eye were influenced by racial, social and patriarchal prejudices, prevented from material advancement, and in some cases, how their expectations for a better life were crushed in the end leading them into catastrophic events. In The Color Purple, characters are able to overcome the effects of oppression with the help of the solidarity of women and their personalities can survive almost intact. Thus they show resilience in the face of adversity.

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KULELİ, Mesut, and Nazan Müge UYSAL. "IN PURSUIT OF MULTI-ETHNIC FEMINIST SIGNS AND THEIR TRANSLATIONS IN LITERARY FEMINISM: THE CASE OF THE COLOR PURPLE BY ALICE WALKER." International Journal of Language Academy 38, no. 38 (2021): 233–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/ijla.52309.

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WARNES, ANDREW. "Guantánamo, Eatonville, Accompong: Barbecue and the Diaspora in the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston." Journal of American Studies 40, no. 2 (July 27, 2006): 367–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875806001423.

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African American writers often express great affection for barbecue, a food many describe as “scrumptious” – to use a term that recurs throughout Bobby Seale's cookbook, Barbeque'n with Bobby (1988) – and invest with a particular capacity to lend shape and coherence to the idea of the African Diaspora. In the writings of Ntozake Shange, Albert Murray, Alice Walker, and others, barbecue seems able to reunite black communities, to gather together people dispersed across the USA or even the world. This literary use of barbecue is epitomized by Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), the concluding pages of which make the food central to a rejuvenating Diasporic optimism that stands in sharp contrast to the novel's desolate opening description of Celie's sexual abuse. Having grown up in West Africa, Adam, offspring of Celie's rape, finally meets his mother at a barbecue held in the American South. The food provides a conversation opener, a point of contact that the estranged family badly need:Everybody make a lot of miration over Tashi. People look at her and Adam's scars like that's they business. Say they never suspect African ladies could look so good. They make a fine couple. Speak a little funny, but us gitting use to it.

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AŞCI, Yasemin. "INDICATORS OF FEMINISM AND FEMINIST VIEWS IN ALICE WALKER S NOVEL THE COLOR PURPLE AND SARAH MOORE GRIMKE S WORK LETTERS ON THE EQUALITY OF THE SEXES AND THE CONDITION OF WOMAN." Journal of International Social Research 11, no. 55 (February 28, 2018): 37–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17719/jisr.20185537179.

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Beirutti, Eliane Borges. "Relações femininas em The Color Purple." Revista Gênero 2, no. 1 (December 19, 2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/rg.v2i1.289.

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No prefácio da antologia Chloe Plus Olivia : An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, a editora Lillian Faderman chama a atenção para a necessidade de dar visibilidade às relações femininas. Seguindo a proposta de Faderman, este artigo aborda o romance premiado de Alice Walker, enfatizando a relação entre Celie e Shug.Palavras chave: Lesbianismo, Negritude, Alice Walker

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Zamruddin, Mardliya Pratiwi, and Burhanuddin Arafah. "A Discourse Stylistics Analysis on the Regularities in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple." KnE Social Sciences, August 1, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/kss.v3i19.4875.

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The purpose of this study was to describe the regularities of the American Postmodern Novelist: Alice Walker with a focus on a character’s and/or narrator’s mind style in a stylistic and narratological approach. This study aimed to attain the regularities from the American novelist’s literary work and how the regularities/irregularities occur in the novel to frame the style of the novelist in producing her literary work. This study was a descriptive qualitative by taken into account of stylistics categories and mind style which were applied to the Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. The data of this study were taken from Alice Walker’s novel entitled The Color Purple. The result of the study showed the occurrences and the forms of regularities in the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker which represented the style of the novelist in creating her literary work. The bold character of African-American Vernacular English that were found in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple showed that the novelist poured their mind style in their literary works by showing their stylistic options in producing the novel. By showing their writing style the novelists were contributed to the development of national language in America.

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"Domestic Violence and Psychological Oppression in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple." International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 8, no. 4S4 (February 4, 2020): 66–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.d1022.1284s419.

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African-American literature is otherwise known as slave narratives. The popular African-American writers are Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass, Alice Walker etc. The Color Purple is a well-known epistolary novel written by Alice Walker in 1983. The novel brought her a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1983. This is a novel about a young fourteen year old black girl. She is tortured physically, emotionally, sexually by her step father and her husband. Later on she develops an intimate relationship with Shug. It has changed her life topsy-turvy. The poor, ugly, innocent, oppressed, inferior woman tremendously changed as a woman of self confident, beautiful and proud human being.

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"Addressing Bisexuality, Gender Non Conformance and Performativity through The Color Purple by Alice Walker." Excellence in Performing Arts Research 6, no. 1 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.21038/epar.2020.0001.

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Hamdan, Majid Masad. "Letter- Writing as a Means of Escape in Alice Walker's the Color Purple." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 04, no. 03 (March 8, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v4-i3-08.

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Escapism might be considered a life defense mechanism without which you might be burnt out faster by the stresses of everyday life. It helps the individual and even communities gain respite or achieve self- reorganization after social, sociological or psychological tensions. Letter- writing is one of its effective implements. It helps obtain a kind of personal relationship and deals with it faithfully and portrays the inner life as it is. The present study tends to explore the theme of escape represented by letter- writing in Alice Walker's. The Color Purple. It aims to demonstrate that Walker tries her best to give the heroine and her sister a chance to address God and each other directly and truly escaping from loneliness and weakness, as well as seeking for consolation and identity. Such a means is considered the only outlet for Celie, and ultimately her sister, who suffers self and familial banishment, psychological repression and sexual suppression. Her suffering is the result of an oppressive and sexually- agitated stepfather who brutalizes, rapes and impregnates her twice at an early stage of her life.

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"In Search of Self : Analysis of the Character Celie in the Color Purple." International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering 8, no. 12S (December 26, 2019): 485–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijitee.l1120.10812s19.

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This article focuses on the theme of alienation in the novel Color Purple by Alice Walker. The main protagonist of the novel is Celie. Celie has been alienated from her family, husband, step children, society and also from herself. It is understandable of the colored people’s situation in a white dominated society. Celie was not only ostracized in the society because of her race but because of her gender and physical appearances. The trauma that she had to undergone from her childhood causes her to change radically. Though she is alienated from everyone and did not receive love until she met with Shrug Avery, she never did lose her real self and at the end she finds her true self

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Sarian, Maristela Cury. "Para uma sociolinguística do texto literário traduzido: um olhar sobre ‘The Color Purple’ e sua tradução." Gragoatá 7, no. 13 (October 8, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v7i13.33520.

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Este trabalho tem por objetivo estabelecer uma relação entre a tradução e a sociolinguística, a partir da análise da tradução do romance epistolar The Color Purple, da afro-americana Alice Walker, A cor púrpura, realizada por Peg Bodelson, Betúlia Machado e Maria José Silveira, a fim de investigar como a heterogeneidade linguística da obra original, associada, sobretudo, à maior ou menor frequência de uso de inglês padrão e de Black English Vernacular pelas personagens, foi construída na tradução. Nessa análise, verifico quais foram os recursos utilizados na caracterização da linguagem das personagens e como estes podem ser associados aos diferentes graus de escolaridade e de letramento de Celie e Nettie, valendo-me, como instrumental para essa análise, de descrições da variação sociolinguística, das teorias do letramento e dos processos de aquisição de língua escrita.

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Thomas, Floyce. "Locating Banned Books: A Collection Analysis of Libraries in Arkansas and Tennessee." SLIS Connecting 10, no. 1 (August 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.18785/slis.1001.08.

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No library can make everything available to its patrons. However, libraries should adhere to the American Library Association (ALA) for guidance on what items are banned from the library's collections. Censorship and intellectual freedom have gained attention for how it affects libraries and the restraints it individualized for banned or forbidden items. Difficulties are characterized as formal, composed complaints recorded with a library or school asking for specific materials to be expelled from view because the substance may not be considered appropriate for the users. The purpose of this study is to compare a selected set of previously banned books or challenged titles in the collections of twelve public libraries within two southern states: Arkansas and Tennessee. The titles include: I Know Why the Cage Birds Sings by Maya Angelou; Beloved by Toni Morrison; Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison; and The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

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