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This critical anthology attempts a searching analysis and revaluation of
issues emerging in Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple. Ranging from the
biographical to the history of African-American narrative traditions, feminist
and postmodernist interventions, and the cinematic adaptation of the
novel, this collection offers a revisioning of Alice Walker as a woman
artist, her philosophy of life, and her role as a spiritual seeker. The
collection extends the critical trajectory of feminism towards intersectionality,
multiculturalism, and internationalism by bringing in contributions from
scholars based in the USA and in India.
Currently an Associate Lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies
Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a Research
Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on her book Female
Body: The Cartography of Desire and Transnational Feminism, Devaleena
Das is Assistant Professor of English at Jesus and Mary College, University
of Delhi. Her other works include Critical Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter (Atlantic Press,2014), Claiming Space: Australian Women's Writing (Forthcoming,
USA, 2016) Fallen Women in the East (Forthcoming, USA, 2016) and various articles published in peer
reviewed leading journals. She works in the field of transnational feminism,
and has delivered lectures and made presentations at various universities in India and in the USA.
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Contributors :
Chandrani Biswas, Panchali Mukherjee, Devaleena Das, Saroj Bala, Ketaki Datta, Shahila Zafar, Gargi Talapatra, Mukul Sengupta, Kendra Bryant, Joe Varghese Yeldho, N. Kavidha and V. Sathivel
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