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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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The Color Purple

The Color Purple by Alice Walker can be critically analyzed as an epistolary novel because the narrative is shaped by Celie’s and Nettie’s letters. The salient features found in an epistolary novel...

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The Color Purple

The Color Purple is primarily categorized as fiction, specifically a novel. It also falls under African-American fiction, feminist fiction, and can be considered mildly historical due to its...

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