The disquisition entitled “Womanist Existentialism” a study on
Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple.
This dissertation studies the Womanist novel
The Color Purple from the Existentialist Womanist point of view. Alice
Walker launches an advanced ‘ism’- Womanism – which is stronger as well as a
microscopic approach to study the problems of the segregated section (Black
Women). She designates the new school ‘Womanism’ because the black women are
kept away, even among from the feminists. A new compound term- Existential
Womanism- is used to analyze her great work, which alone can transcend the
meaning of Feminism and Womanism.

The introductory chapter of this
dissertation explores the major tenets of Existentialism, and describes at
length the multifarious concepts related to it. It also deals with, how Celei, the protagonist of the novel,
constructs her identity.

The second chapter designated
“Walkerian Womanism” discusses the fundamental premise of Womanism, i.e. ‘black
Feminism or feminism of colour’. It is an advocacy of or enthusiasm for the
rights and achievements etc. of women.

The third chapter entitled ‘Positing
Womanist Existentialism’ shows the meaning and the compounding of the term
‘Existential Womanism’ and the relevance of the Existential Womanist reading of
the novel The Color Purple. This
chapter also explains the Existentialist view of life that human beings have no
given essence but must forge their value and meaning in an inherently absurd
world of existence.&nbsp;

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