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  • Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, printed in 1982, uses Celie's letters to God to chronicle her rise from a brow-beaten woman, who is forced by her abusive father to marry an abusive husband and is separated from her sister and only friend, Nettie, to a self-confident business woman who learns to love others and herself, largely through her friendship with her husband's lover, Shug Avery.
  • Maxine Hong Kingston's 1976 novel, The Woman Warrior,...

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