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The Color Purple

From American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations
A novel by Alice Walker (1982) FILM : The Color Purple (Amblin/Warner 1985). Adaptation by Menno Meyjes. Director : Steven Spielberg. Cast : Whoopi Goldberg (Celie), Danny Glover (Mister), Margaret Avery (Shug), Oprah Winfrey (Sofia), Willard E. Pugh (Harpo), Akosua Busia (Nettie), Adolph Caesar, Desreta Jackson, Rae Dawn Chong. THEATRE : The Color Purple (Broadway 2005). Adaptation by Marsha Norman (book), Brenda Russell, Alee Willis, Stephen Bray (music, lyrics). Director : Gary Griffin. Cast : LaChanze (Celie), Kingsley Leggs (Mister), Elisabeth Withers-Mendes (Shug), Felicia P. Fields (Sofia), Brandon Victor Dixon (Harpo), Reneé Elise Goldsberry (Nettie), Krisha Narcano, James Brown III. Epic in scope but very personal in its narrative, Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple tells a long and complex story through a series of letters the protagonist writes to God and her faraway sister. Celie is a poor African American teenager living in Georgia in the Depression. Uneducated and…
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Full text Article The Color Purple

From Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
1982 Work Author: Alice Walker Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Color Purple , tracks the torturous journey of Celie, a rural black female adolescent, toward womanhood and self-awareness. In a larger vein, Walker's third novel offers her vision of the possibility for healthy, …
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1982 Work Author: Alice Walker Both a critical and a commercial triumph, Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a controversial and unconventional novel of sexual abuse and female empowerment that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for Fiction. The book is written in an epistolary…
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Full text Article Color Purple, The

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
A novel (1982), written in the form of letters, by the US writer Alice Walker (b.1944), which won the Pulitzer prize for fiction. A young black woman, Celie , having been raped as a child by her father and borne him two children, who are then taken away from her, is married off to a violent bully. …
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Full text Article Walker, Alice

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Alice Walker. Georgia Encyclopedia.
Author Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. She attended college at Spelman and transferred to Sarah Lawrence, where she graduated in 1965. Walker began her writing career at Sarah Lawrence and has since published several books of poems, essays, criticism, and short…
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Full text Article Walker, Alice

From A to Z of Women: American Women Writers
Also known as: Alice Malsenior Walker (b. 1944–) writer A prominent figure of contemporary African-American literature and an avid civil rights activist and feminist, Alice Walker is a versatile and prolific writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her best-selling, …
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Full text Article Walker, Alice

From Encyclopedia of American Literature Full text Article Volume 4
(b. 1944–) American novelist, poet, essayist Well, us talk and talk bout God, but I still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come…
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Full text Article Winfrey, Oprah

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Jan. 29, 1954, Kosciusko, Miss., U.S.) U.S. television talk-show host and actress. After enduring an impoverished and troubled childhood, she became a news anchor for a local CBS television station in Tennessee at age 19. After graduating from Tennessee State University, she worked as a…
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Full text Article Spielberg, Steven

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Dec. 18, 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) U.S. film director and producer. About the time of his graduation from California State College, Long Beach (1970), he attracted the attention of Universal Pictures with a short film he made. As a director of television movies, he made the thriller Duel…
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Full text Article Walker, Alice (Malsenior)

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Feb. 9, 1944, Eatonton, Ga., U.S.) U.S. writer. After attending Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College, Walker moved to Mississippi and became involved with the civil rights movement. She also began teaching and publishing short stories and essays. Her works are noted for their insightful…
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Full text Article purple

From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
Any of a group of colors with a hue between that of violet and red. Cloth of a color between violet and red, formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office. Imperial power; high rank: born to the purple. Roman Catholic Church a. The rank or office of a cardinal. b. The rank or office of a…
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