The Third Life of Grange Copeland

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Walker's consideration of the relationship between racist economic oppression of black men and black men's oppression of women, and the need for generative love as opposed to abusive appropriation of women's bodies in The Third Life of Grange Copeland informs her ongoing exploration of these themes in later works such as Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982) and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).

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