Abstract
The current paper deals with Alice Walker's well-known novel The Color Purple. Obviously, Walker's book, as a narrative discourse, presents aesthetically various themes like woman abuse, oppression, racism, sexism and male dominance in a patriarchal community. In particular, the study is an attempt to explore how the writer ignites and rises the spark of the rebellious spirit inside the
... [Show full abstract] oppressed black woman who is doubly humiliated and marginalized as black and female. In Walker's perspective, both in life and literature, the rising female consciousness of the womanist character contributes to alter her passivity to activity and make her human action indicative of energetic and aesthetic triumphant voice instead of humiliating silence and that is an aesthetic action by itself.