In these novels, we often meet women who fight against all odds for their survival and for the survival of their families. This tradition of novels tends to deal with the oppression of African-American women, not only by means of white domination but also by specific white and black males. The Color Purple is often used as an example of a “woman’s novel.” For Walker, womanist writing is that which focuses on African-American women in twentieth-century America. Although Walker wrote the novel in 1982 and Celie’s story takes place in the early 1900s (probably 1909–1947), these women fundamentally share a common path.
In fact, the whole novel focuses on the journeys of its women. It’s an experience.In her preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Color Purple, Walker explains: “This book is the book in which I was able to express a new spiritual awareness, a rebirth into strong feelings of Oneness I realized I had experienced and taken for granted as a child a chance for me as well as the main character, Celie, to encounter That Which Is Beyond Understanding But Not Beyond Loving and to say: I see and hear you clearly, Great Mystery, now that I expect to see and hear you everywhere I am, which is the right place.” Clearly, this novel is Walker’s spiritual journey as well as Celie’s, which unites the two women as comrades on the journey. You buy the tickets, and then you put a little purple ribbon on them.
I would say because it’s Christmas-it’s coming out Christmas Day- it should be your number one Christmas gift. This is what I want to say to everybody: This film is for your family, it’s for your friends bring your cousins, your sisters, your mamas, too. You know why? ’Cause God get pissed if you don’t notice the color purple. Henson: Women are and will always be the backbone of any society.ĭanielle Brooks: What I know for sure is no matter how many times you fall, you can always get back up.įantasia: What I know for sure, I know a lot of women will be healed from watching this movie.
I’m giving you a sneak peek into my life this week by asking some of the stars of The Color Purple what they know for sure.
Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia-and talk to them about what being a part of this whole experience has meant for us, and what they know for sure after being a part of The Color Purple. I got to reunite with some of my wonderful cast members-Taraji P. We are here for CinemaCon-where we are meeting all of the theater owners who will be part of exposing The Color Purple to the rest of the world. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĪh, life on the road.
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