The Plight of Woman in Olinka’s Tribe in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Abstract

The current study is an attempt to shed light on the plight of woman in Olinka’s Tribe in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. It aims to reveal the impact of domestic violence, and to create a new identity for the weak black woman in the American society in the recent era, give them a voice, and make them self-confident: socially, emotionally and spiritually. The novel clearly portrays the multifaceted violence suffered by the blacks, thus, the novelist exposes her themes through the main black characters in order to offer the reader a real insightful depiction and send a message to the entire world about the ill treatment, marginalization and multi faced exploitation that most of the black people have been suffering for centuries.