Word: colored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair to the individual work, but any novel by Alice Walker invites comparison to The Color Purple, the book that brought her into the limelight. And her newest book, The Temple of My Familiar just cannot measure...
Walker broke ground with The Color Purple by writing in the voice of a poor Black woman. She showed a stunning power over words by using simple language to develop complex characters and show strong emotion. In Temple, Walker has done just the opposite. The book is a string of cliches and reads like a pop novel--there is too much discussion of running shoes, crystals and jacuzzis and not enough about people...
...same time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...characters all speak in the same voice. Unlike Celie in The Color Purple, whose simple language and grammatical errors were emotionally powerful and expressive of a strong character, everyone in Temple uses a slick new-age vocabulary. Even the foreigners, the African and British, use the same language...
Other Students came for more practical reasons. Aoibheann Sweeney '91 wanted to speak to an authority on The Color Purple, the topic of her sophomore tutorial research paper...