African American Gender Roles In The Color Purple By Alice Walker
The gender role of African Americans has been discussed by a number of historians and investigated through different approaches to analyze their experiences. The gender role in the African American literature has been explored in a way to the role of women viewed by the African American men and women. The study of gender role shows that the women’s participation in the works outside the home increased dramatically during the 1940s. The gender role for women began to shift right during the World War II and has increased dramatically afterwards. The gender role of African American signified the most during the post-world war II era. Earlier that time, women in the African American culture were merely thought to stay at home and perform domestic
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All over this novel, it demonstrates how the gender roles gradually fragmented and transformed into whatsoever an individual relished and was fruitful at. At the commencement, the chief character, Celie was married to a man who didn’t care for her and used to beat her. When inquired by his son Harpo that why he beat her, that person just said, “As she is my wife.” He had immense thinking that women were supposed to take care of the household and children only.
As the book keep on, the initial sign of a man performing something beyond his conventional role was when child’s diaper was changed by Harpo. Starting from that particular point in the book, several more examples were found in switched up roles like Celie sewing pants for her living, all this leading up to Celie and the Mr.___ sewing and smoking cigars out on the porch; sewing, a woman’s job, and smoking cigars, a more stereotypical male action. Alice Walker, the author, was attempting to persuade that men and women should do what they are good at and what they like to do rather than worrying about which role they are supposed to …show more content…
Rather than being a member of the team only she managed to make an impact also. She stated in one her debates that it is foolish to wait for equality and freedom, and the day of freedom should either be today or no other day. She was also firm to do whatever a man on the team can do and she was a very efficacious debater who debated the top schools of the
All over this novel, it demonstrates how the gender roles gradually fragmented and transformed into whatsoever an individual relished and was fruitful at. At the commencement, the chief character, Celie was married to a man who didn’t care for her and used to beat her. When inquired by his son Harpo that why he beat her, that person just said, “As she is my wife.” He had immense thinking that women were supposed to take care of the household and children only.
As the book keep on, the initial sign of a man performing something beyond his conventional role was when child’s diaper was changed by Harpo. Starting from that particular point in the book, several more examples were found in switched up roles like Celie sewing pants for her living, all this leading up to Celie and the Mr.___ sewing and smoking cigars out on the porch; sewing, a woman’s job, and smoking cigars, a more stereotypical male action. Alice Walker, the author, was attempting to persuade that men and women should do what they are good at and what they like to do rather than worrying about which role they are supposed to …show more content…
Rather than being a member of the team only she managed to make an impact also. She stated in one her debates that it is foolish to wait for equality and freedom, and the day of freedom should either be today or no other day. She was also firm to do whatever a man on the team can do and she was a very efficacious debater who debated the top schools of the