Violence Against Women In The Color Purple And That Long Silence

Abstract

The paper analyzes the reproduction of violence in two novels namely ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘That Long Silence’ penned by Alice Walker and Shashi Deshpande respectively. The paper zero in on the Afro-American and Indian women and the suffering they endure on account of the fact that before and after the Harlem Renaissance and the Independence in Afro-America and India respectively, women are still in chains. It focuses on the position of women in their respective patriarchal communities which seems to torn between the human being and women and between the present-day new practices due to women’s access to education and stereotyped ancient patriarchal culture. Both these novels taken for the study depict the nature of violences against women which are legions and in different forms. It also concentrates on the grounds of similarities and differences in novels to be scrutinized. Women, born to be free as a man, finds herself constrained and curbed by the patriarchal society, not only in India but in most parts of the world. This is due to the primarily patriarchal culture of the world.