БОЈАТА НА ПУРПУРОТ ОД АЛИС ВОКЕР – ЕПИСТОЛАРЕН ВОМАНИСТИЧКИ БИЛДУНГСРОМАН
The Color Purple by Alice Walker – Epistolary Womanist Bildungsroman

Summary/Abstract: Alice Walker (1944) is a famous and significant African-American writer, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1983 for her novel The Color Purple. By doing so, she becomes the first African-American woman to receive this prestigious award and recognition. Walker is one of the most famous African-American writers in America and the world, who inspires and fascinates readers with her works. The Color Purple is her most significant novel, through which she gained international fame. The novel is epistolary - written in the form of letters, and it is also a Bildungsroman, i.e. a novel in which the development path of the heroine is shown. It is also a Womanist Bildungsroman, because it follows the development path of a heroine who is African-American. In the case of Celie, this prose work shows us the development and transformation of a subordinate disadvantaged and marginalized black woman from a degree of extreme subordination, poverty, abuse and marginalization, to the degree of gaining economic independence. The novel belongs to the category of the Authentic Realism Writing which is a descriptive term used to characterize the style and approach of certain authors, such as Alice Walker, who strive for authenticity in her portrayal of characters and situations. Walker believes that literature is a means through which a woman’s struggle for equality with a man comes to light, as well as a woman writer’s struggle for equal treatment with a man writer and she uses literature as an act of liberation.

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