the color purple context Flashcards
when and where did slavery originate?
1400s
settlers from Portugal came to Africa
how did slaves make owners extremely wealthy?
hard labour and reproduction
how many millions of Africans were forcibly carried to the Americas?
11-12 million`
where did slaves originally work?
plantations
what happened in 1730s Chesapeake?
natural increase of the black population meant the majority of residents had never seen Africa
“negroes from __ to __ suite this ________ best” ~ Charleston Slave Trader
15 to 25
market
what threat did pre 1860s Georgia think slaves posed?
danger to every white person in Georgia
when was the Slave Code Act?
1755`
in Georgia pre 1860s there was a long, deadly ______ to the _______ which would take ________ resulting in __% of slaves dying before the end of the journey
march
coast
months
40
did Georgia become an extension of Europe or Africa?
Africa
which state had the largest number of plantations in the south?
Georgia
white Georgians viewed slavery as ______________ indispensable
economically
when was the Emancipation Proclamation?
1863
“all persons held as ________ are, and henceforward shall be _____” ~ The Emancipation Proclamation
slaves
free
what was the issue with the Emancipation Proclamation?
Only states seceded US states applied
[Critical Comment] Lovalerie King ~ “Walker achieves a previously unrealised depiction of the __________ approach to life in the character of ____ _____ (who) Chooses an alternative to __________ and embraces a ____,____,_____ sexuality”
womanist
Shug Avery
mothering
free, open, fluid
What are the three types of woman Walker uses?
Suspended
Assimilated
Emergent
[Critical Comment] Ralph D Story ~ “no other black woman writer has sought or gained so much _______________ ___________ from black males”
retrospective retribution
[Critical Comment] Pauline Kael ~ “________ female _____________”
rampant
chauvinism
[Critical Comment] Ishmael Reed ~ “in league with white feminists who have systematically conspired to _________ ______ ___”
denigrate
black men
[Critical Comment] Ishmael Reed ~ “Walker’s representation of ____ is so marvelously crafted - so _______ - that the _____ _____ characters become ____ and increasingly ______________
Shug
whole
black male
flat
insignificant
[Critical Comment] George Stade ~ “___________ in the novel is _______,irreducible, the __________ _____ of all that’s wrong in the world”
masculinity
radical
causeless cause
[Critical Comment] George Stade ~ “the only way that the male characters can be _____ is by giving them the _________ to be _____ by realising the ______ already in them”
saved
courage
women
woman
[Critical Comment] Trudier Harris ~ “anyone can ___ her, or say anything to her, or commit _________ against her, and she will __________ say something to the effect that she is ______ ____
use
violence
placidly
still here
[Critical Comment] Maroula Joannou ~ “to criticise [Celie] for ____________ is to do so in ____________ of the fear which male __________ produces in women”
passivity
ignorance
violence
[Critical Comment] Maroula Joannou ~ “what is surprising is not that the ___________ of victims of __________ violence like Celie is _____ to develop but that it ____ ____________ at all
resistance
domestic
slow
ever develops
[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ “read Walker’s novel as a _____-_______ revision of a ___________”
post-modern
fairytale
[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ “the novel engages two delightful aspects of fairytales: ___________ ___________ and ___________ _______
fantastic happenings
improbable endings
[Critical Comment] Margaret Walsh ~ “____ transforms and can make all things ___ and __________”
love
new
beautiful
[Critical Comment] Thomas F Marvin ~ “readings of the novel as __________ more convincing than those that try to force the novel into a ___________ ____
fairytale
realistic mode
[Critical Comment] Steven Weisenbrger ~ “Walker’s ________ errand had taken __________ over the elements of ___________ art”
womanist
priority
narrative
[Critical Comment] Steven Weisenbrger ~ “sacrifices mimetic _________ … ________ goals”
fidelity
didactic
[Critical Comment] bell hooks ~ “mere ____________ treatise on ______ life or a radical ___________ text”
sociological
black
feminist
[Critical Comment] Kaufmann ~ “in keeping with its ________________ _________”
womanist
agenda
What does Walker say about Womanism?
Womanism is to feminism as purple is to lavender
Who does womanism focus on?
Black experiences of men and women
Who was Walker’s literary inspiration?
Zora Neale Hurston
What did Zora Neale Hurston study?
Religions of African diaspora
Black folklore
What role of slaves is significant to Celie?
Cotton pickers
What percentage of black farmers were sharecroppers in the 1900s?
50%
What industry did the Republican’s promote when they came to power in 1868 Georgia?
Textiles
What is intersectionality?
All oppression is linked
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Revival of African-American arts and culture
Why were police so brutal to black people?
Protection of whiteness
What did police refer to black women as?
Colored Amazons
What happened to black female inmates?
Food and sleep deprived
What does Alice Walker think of God?
All present and All magical
What is Walker’s belief?
Pantheism
What were Walker’s parents?
Sharecroppers
What is Walker’s sexuality?
Bisexual
