And in a kind of cultural déjà vu, a new breed of detractors have been up in arms, just as critics of "The Color Purple" were when Alice Walker's novel ... the National Book Award and the ...

In this Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award for Fiction-winner, Walker paints the horrifying ... at the hands of the men in her life. "The Color Purple" is set in the southern U.S. in the ...

Alice Walker ... book’s themes of sexual violence, racism, and sexism, as well as its unapologetic celebration of Black womanhood, earned it both accolades and controversy. The Color Purple ...