Ecofeminist Concerns in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Abstract

Ecofeminist attempts to understand the interrelated dominations of women and nature through analysis, critique and images. The major concerns of ecofeminism are the use of nature to symbolise feminism or women and the use of women to symbolise nature. The rising corpse of literature on ecofeminism in west relates gender and environment essentially in ideologically terms. An American writer Alice Walker is a novelist, short story writer, poet and activist. She won the National Book Award for her critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple and Pulitzer Prize for her fiction. Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple contains ecofeminist elements. The main characters Celie and Nettie pay much courtesy to release women from patriarchal society. They are also concerned with eco-preservation. This research work will see the sights of the relationship of destruction and exploitation of nature and women. The passages from the text The Color Purple, are recognising that devastation of environment and women goes parallel in this male dominate society. Moreover, this research will travel around that how the male society control and use both nature and women.