期刊名称：Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
印刷版ISSN：1412-3320
电子版ISSN：2502-4914
出版年度：2002
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：129-140
DOI：10.24167/celt.v2i2.760
语种：English
出版社：Soegijapranata Catholic University
摘要：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 matters in the world of literature. In the novel, of The Color Purple, Alice Walker describes the oppression experienced by AfroAmerican women in the female characters of Celie, Nettie. Shug Avery, Sofia, and Mary Agnes who faced sexual discrimina'ions in a patriarchal society. Womanhood, education, and lesbianism are factors that help the AfroAmerican 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 AfroAmerican women characters that help Celie to find her self-identity represent the manifestation of the rejection of the traditional values. This article, which uses the socio-historical and 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 self identity.
关键词：Traditional values; patriarchal; Afro A merican women *s rejection
