The Taboos and Doubters Alice Walker Defied to Write ‘The Color Purple’
An excerpt from ‘In Search of The Color Purple’
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9 min readJan 11, 2021
To tell Celie’s epic tale, Alice Walker broke multiple taboos. The first was that of incest. When we first encounter Celie’s own private thoughts to herself, we believe, as she does, that “Pa” is her actual father and only learn much later in the novel that a White…
