Celebrating Womanism through Intertextuality in Sapphire’s Push and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Khissoga, Rahajeng Hauwwa (2020) Celebrating Womanism through Intertextuality in Sapphire’s Push and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember.

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Abstract

The objects of this study are Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Sapphire’s Push. Tis study is trying to unveil the intertextuality between the two works of literature above in order to trace back Sapphire’s attempt of celebrating Womanism in Black American women literature through intertextuality. In order to examine the similarity shared by Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Sapphire’s Push, Kristeva’s Intertextuality is used as the theoritical framework of the study. The structural elements of the text such themes, plots, character and language as well as background information such as social, historical, cultural and religious background of the novel are examined thoroughly.This study focuses on how Alice Walker’s idea of Womanism in The Color Purple influences Sapphire to write a novel with a similar topic of discussion under the umbrella of Womanism. Supported by citations and quotations in both novel, this study uncover the absence of motherhood as well as the emergence of sisterhood in both novels. Those novels also shares similarity in portraying the importance of education as a site of struggle of Black American Woman. The similarity that these novels have when working on the isssue of Womanism undergone by Black American women and and also several quotes of Alice Walker’s work of literature in Push manifested the Sapphire’s celebration of womanism through intertextuality in her novel.

Item Type:	Other
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Womanism; Alice Walker; intertextuality; black American women
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Sastra > S1 Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	Rahajeng Hauwwa Khissoga
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2021 05:38
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2021 05:38
URI:	http://repository.unars.ac.id/id/eprint/274

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