The Color Purple | Related Titles
Most of the social concerns and themes of The Color Purple are also evident in Walker's two earlier novels, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) and Meridian (1976), although the three books are not part of a sequence or otherwise related. The Third Life of Grange Copeland traces the history of the Copelands, a poor rural black family, from 1920 to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. As with The Color Purple, Walker posits the fortunes of the Copeland family (and in particular of the patriarchal Grange) as emblematic of the black experience in...
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