Raped by family members and older men, at one point falling pregnant with her Winfrey, too, is a survivor: As a child, she was repeatedly Helping her come forward: “I broke my silence because of The Color Purple ,”Ĭhapter on the Broadway adaptation, Tillet interviews Oprah Winfrey (who was aĬo-producer on the musical, along with Harvey Weinstein and others), who played Sofia, Celie’s brash and outspoken daughter-in-law who Tillet, who read TheĬolor Purple the year before starting college, credits the novel with Project that documented Tillet’s process of healing. Scheherazade created “A Long Walk Home: Story of a Rape Survivor,” a multimedia A rape survivor herself, in 1997, she and her sister Their father now that Celie is out of the home. She feels loved by, her sister Nettie, runs off for fear of being raped by Eventually, she is married off to a man she calls Mr._, whoĪbuses her emotionally, sexually, and physically. Her twice, and takes the children away each time (for a while, she thinks he has Suffering at the hands of the man she believes to be her father. It begins withĪ 14-year-old girl named Celie writing to God about the sexual abuse she is Novel set in the interwar period of the early twentieth century. Male sexuality: “One must suspect this affectionate feminine display will beĬontrasted with an unfulfilling exchange between a black man and a black Organization called the Coalition Against Black Male Exploitation sent out aīulletin claiming the relationship between Shug and Celie was an attack on Black While the movie was still in production, an Incest, childhood rape, and domestic violence within the context of a singleįamily in the rural South of the 1920s-furthered an image of Black men as Leaders who thought the novel-which explored unsparingly the subjects of Much of what, and from whom? During production, the film was the subject ofĬoordinated attacks, largely from Black male critics and certain community Had there been more, he said, “there would have just (with Quincy Jones producing), explained the choice to have the two women kiss Largely excised the lesbian relationship at the center of Alice Walker’s

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