![]() Living in an unfortunate world where they were placed them at the bottom of social ladder, both of the main characters of the novel need the support from other Black Women in order to survive. They both also concern about Black women supporting other Black women in both of the novels. Both Sapphire and Walker highlight the value of literacy and/or education for the Black American women as a way out of the repressive and dominating society. ![]() Supported by citations and quotations in both novel, this study tries to uncover how similar these novel are when working on the isssue of Womanism undergone by Black American women. ![]() ![]() Womanism can be seen as a weapon for the black women to fight back the partriarchal society. Womanism is quite essential to the Black American women empowerment. This study focuses on how Alice Walker’s idea of Womanism in The Color Purple influences Sapphire to write a novel with a similar topic of discussion under the umbrella of Womanism. This study is trying to unveil the interxtuality between the two works of literature above in order to trace back Sapphire’s attempt of celebrating Womanism in Black American women literature through intertextuality. ![]() The objects of this study are Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Sapphire’s Push. ![]()
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