Portrayal of Psychoanalysis, Wounded Female and Self-Knowledge in Walker’s The Color Purple

In the existing literature every text has an important role for portraying a traumatized woman and her intractable problem in the novel. Walker summarizes and analyses the trauma theory and practice of identity, language, victim, andsurvival by the help of psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud and Cathy Caruth to keep trauma theory completely uptodate. She tracks down the negative, undesirable and traumatic effect of masculinity within family and communityrelations, and exposes the status, emotions, sexuality and role, of women in the patriarchal society. Alice Walker inepistolary work The Color Purple advocates women-bonding and female creativity to derive strength and inspiration to survive the plethora of trauma suffered by the protagonist Celie. The novel honestly explores the damaging effects of male domination upon Celie‘s spirit and her ability to progress physically and emotionally through a shower of socialparadigms. During her quest for self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment, she clash with the belittling values that their daily circumstances impose upon her.

کلیدواژه ها:

Alice walker ، Trauma ، psychoanalysis ، Sisterhood ، Letter-writing