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Essay on Race and Class in The Color Purple  
  

An important  juncture in Alice Walker's The Color Purple is reached when
Celie first recovers the missing letters from her long-lost sister Nettie.
This discovery not only signals the introduction of a new narrator to this
epistolary novel but also begins the transformation of Celie from writer to
reader. Indeed, the passage in which Celie struggles to puzzle out the
markings on her first envelope from Nettie provides a concrete illustration
of both Celie's particular horizon of interpretation and Walker's chosen
approach to the epistolary form:

Saturday morning Shug put Nettie letter in my lap. Little fat queen of
England stamps on it, plus stamps that got peanuts, coconuts, rubber trees
and say Africa. I don't know wher... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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