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The musical ‘The Color Purple’ celebrates womanist spirituality but challenges patriarchy
By Felecia Piggott-Long, Ph.D. Womanist is a term that originates from the scholarly work of Alice Walker, the author of “The Color Purple,” the first epistolary novel. This novel received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1987, as it was written...