"A View from 'Elsewhere' ": Subversive Sexuality and the Rewriting of the Heroine's Story in The Color Purple

By telling the story of the "invisible woman"-a character traditionally silenced and effaced in fiction-The Color Purple challenges patriarchal constructions of femininity and female desire and makes representation itself a compelling issue. Initially, the great twentieth-century cultural...

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Main Author: Abbandonato, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1991
In: PMLA
Year: 1991, Volume: 106, Issue: 5, Pages: 1106-1115
Further subjects:B Girard, René (1923-2015)
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