The Challenges of Gender Feminism in the Novels of Alice Walker

Abstract

This article is related to Gender feminism through articulation of protagonists highlighting the racial and gender inequality. Alice Walker as a radical feminist presented the issues of black women concerned with the feminist epistemology theory that is based on which believes that knowledge claims are made from nowhere and are universally valid. African women took surface knowledge of American society and gained superior knowledge of human potential. Alice Walker’s various protagonists Meridian, Celie, Lissie and Tashi signify the situated knowers theory. They articulated their problems, sufferings and attaining their own world of peace by changing the economic, political and moral status with love around them. Alice Walker deals with female consciousness through various thematic motifs. The motifs are regeneration of self, exploration of ethics by preserving African culture and last motif is to raise voice against sexual politics. Walker through her selected novels tried to document the anguish, pain and inferiority that black women were subjected.