Alice Walker unfolds the oppression of the
black woman in her literature, perceptibly illuminating the roles they have been
given to fill but to which they do not belong. This
paper examines how through her characters, Alice Walker embodies the struggle of a double minority and leads them to find what so many
black women have struggled and searched for a sense of identity separate and individual from what has been pressed upon them. The paper looks at works such "The Color Purple" and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", among others.