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Add new Web site: NPR - 'The Color Purple' is about the bonding of women. Sep 11, 2026
Add new Web site: The Criterion An International Journal in English - Affirming Black Womanist Self in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (PDF). May 12, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - An Ecofeminist Study of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” (PDF). Apr 03, 2026
Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at SHU - Gender, Race, and Violence: A Critical Examination of Trauma in The Color Purple (PDF). Nov 19, 2025
Add new Web site: DergiPark - Trapped in Double Katatonic Silence: A Postcolonial Perspective to ?The Color Purple? (PDF). Apr 25, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - The Color Purple review: ‘A joy to watch’. Jan 17, 2025
Add new Web site: International Journal of Applied Research - A critical analysis of Alice walker�s The Color Purple. Nov 11, 2024
Add new Web site: International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts - The Symbolism of Family and Color in Alice Walker�s -The Color Purple. Aug 24, 2024
Article updated and expanded. Jan 24, 2024
Media added. Dec 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The color purple". Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Alice Walker's Color Purple. Jan 12, 2023
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - The Color Purple. Dec 05, 2022
Changed the title of the Assessment section to "Legacy." Feb 11, 2019
Article thoroughly revised. Jan 04, 2019
Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - The Color Purple. Jun 06, 2011
New article added. Mar 23, 2011
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