Abstract
Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple (1982) represents the
journey of Celie’s life from oppression to self-discovery. From
1982 to 2017, the novel has been studied several times from
several different perspectives excluding modernism in the novel.
Rather, the intensive reading of the text shows that the novel
embodies some literary aspects/elements of modernism too. To
fulfil this gap, this study provides a modernist reading of the novel.
Keeping up with the theoretical principles of literary modernism
together with text-based method of analysis, this study explores the
element of fragmented narration and fragmented characterization
in the novel. Herein, Walker takes a shift from conventionalism to
modernity by converting the conventional epistolary technique to
the stream of consciousness technique. Further, the use of
ungrammatical dialectical language, a cycle of problems in Celie’s
life and the portrayal of immoral society are a few other elements
of modernism under lying in the novel.
Sabah Zaib, Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Mashori. (2017) Exploring The Elements Of Literary Modernism In Alice Walker’s Novel The Color Purple, Karoonjhar Research Journal, Volume-16, Issue-1.
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