The Challenges of the Black Female Spirit in the Stories of Alice Walker

Abstract

This article is based on expressing basic peculiarities of black female spirit in the stories by Alice Walker. Basically, this paper gives more essential information about “In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women” by Alice Walker. For centuries, American patriarchal society has been detrimental to the spirits of Black women in a variety of ways. In our male-dominated world, women of all races and cultures are, to a large degree, discouraged from setting foot outside of their female-identified arenas. The fact that women remain subject to normative representations of Woman, the feminine, the biologically female - reminds us that such representations continue to exert a great deal of pressure on any attempt to represent women as the subjects of feminism, or indeed, as the subjects of any discourse or social practice.