Possessing the Secret of Joy (The Color Purple Collection)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005NY4QI0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 311 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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The focus of Walker's rage is the practice of female circumcision in African cultures. . Walker tells the story in very brief chapters, each loaded with the sense of the historical importance she wishes to convey, but the fragile narrative cannot support the weight of her overwrought prose. Tashi grows up in a small African village but initially escapes the customary clitorodectomy. Her tale concerns Tashi, a character who made fleeting appearances in The Color Purple and The Temple of My Familiar , and who here represents an archetypal figure, not so much a woman as a mouthpiece for feminist distress. with her husband and assumes a new identity as Evelyn Johnson, her pain and anger, accumulating the suffering of the ages, bubble to the surface in a lingering madness that
A woman must come to terms with the circumcision she endured as a child in Africa In Tashi’s tribe, the Olinka, young girls undergo female genital mutilation as an initiation into the community. As she questions why such a terrifying, disfiguring sacrifice was required, she sorts through the many levels of subjugation with which she’s been burdened over the years. In Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker exposes the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation in an unforgettable, moving novel. Tashi manages to avoid this fate at first, but when pressed by tribal leaders, she submits. This ebook features an illustrated biog
"Complex and Textured" according to C. Baker. Alice Walker states that the secret of joy is "RESISTANCE", which sums up the book nicely. But there is more to this single word. Resistance to what? Resistance to injustice, in this case specifically the injustice of genital mutilationbut Walker clearly means for this resistance to include other forms of injustice. Such as, you ask? Racism, sexism, bigotry in any form.Walker's books, including this one, convey the psychological damage of perpetual abuse of a person throughout not only their own life bu. Control This is the first book I've ever read by Alice Walker, and I discovered it quite by accident; I picked it up randomly at a friend's house and was hooked almost from the first page. Although this book clearly has a political agenda (exposing the wretched practice of female genital mutilation), character development, story and imagination are never sacrificed just to get a point across. The main character, Tashi, is a complex, multi-layered woman whose personality is so magnetic that even her husband's mi. Donni Didit said Deep & Meaningful & Poignant. This is the second time I have journied through the pages of this riveting book, picking up new nuances and concepts along the way. This book is one of my all time favourites because it hits an emotional chord and attachment to the charcaters and their inherant obstacles develops through each page to well after the book is finished and one is left musing the strangeness of certain customs and how mutilation can become culturally acceptable until individuals questions it. "Resistance is the secret of Joy