FEMINIST AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE COLOR PURPLE

Abstract

Nature proliferates with quizzical wonders. Our heritage of natural resources is being frayed. Man driven by his egotistical attitude, threatens to euthanize the environment and all other living creatures other than humans. While race, class and gender oppressions have commonly found a place in the literary arena, nature has been negated from the core.  Alice Walker's epistolary novel The Color Purple is quietly an exception. One can trace the images of ecology and woman in the novel which solicits a sorority between the oppression of woman and profiteering of nature by male domination. This paper focuses on the augmentation of the novel to the seminal idea of ecological conscience and environmental protection using tactics that intertwine eco criticism with feminist criticism. This paper attempts to inoculate the novel The Color Purple with a theme of feminine and ecological liberation from domination and violence.