The Status of Black Women in the Novels of Alice Walker

Abstract

This article gives the main information about black women's issues and their basic features expressed in the novels of Alice Walker who is well known activist, feminist writer, poet. Her contributions to American literature are great with her popular, best-seller novels and creative work. Alice Walker undoubtedly occupies a prominent place in the envy of African-American literature. It presents the struggles and journeys of African American men and women an effort to strengthen and liberate the entire black race. She is associated with the “survival” of her people, who have been discriminated against, humiliated and humiliated by the white American majority. Walker focuses on black women’s survival strategies in a racist white society and a patriarchal black society. Her personal experiences and observations as a black woman are repeated in her works and characters. In her creative work, she completely presents that being a black woman is twice as difficult as just being a woman or a black man.