This assignment will require research and focused analysis on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. This novel has received a great deal of attention, both praising it and denigrating it. Both academic responses and popular responses have highlighted the concerns of the text.
Your task for this assignment is to pair the novel with a short story or poem by another syllabus author.
Create an argument for how the novel, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and the poem, ;If We Must Die by Claude McKay, demonstrate resistance to boundaries.
You may center your argument on a primary or secondary character, and you could conceptualize boundaries as physical, social, ideological, relational, etc. Your secondary text might confirm Walker’s ideas, but it might contrast Walker’s presentation of boundaries.
You will develop your own main statement and interpretation, folding in your research as a tool to enhance your reading. This means that you will need to go far beyond simple (and generally useless) plot summary and regurgitation of articles.
