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Language Is Critical: How Alice Walker Broke Taboos in Writing Celie

An excerpt from ‘In Search of The Color Purple’

Jan 11, 2021

Language Is Critical: How Alice Walker Broke Taboos in Writing Celie

Jan 11, 2021

Salamishah Tillet

Salamishah Tillet

Professor at Rutgers — Newark; Critic at The New York Times, Author of “In Search of The Color Purple”; Co-Founder of A Long Walk Home

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