Résumé:
This Thesis discussesthe status of the black female in her community
andinvestigateshow black females resist hardships that they face in The Color Purple,
through confronting many difficulties such as domestic violence, sexism and
racism.In addition this study traces the effect of female bondage on Celie,the
protagonist’s process of emancipation. The study attempts to explore the miserable
circumstances that the color purple’s females lived-in such as psychological and
physical violence and the main empowering factors that helped in reconstructing the
identity, in addition to breaking away and challenging the patriarchal social structure
of the black community. To realise the objectives of the thesis two main approaches
has been used; the pychoanalysit and the feminist approach.
