Celie in the looking glass : the desire for selfhood in The color purple / Daniel W. Ross

Race, gender, and nation in The color purple / Lauren Berlant

Sifting through controversy : reading The color purple / Priscilla L. Walton

The purple colour of Walker women : their journey from slavery to liberation / Om P. Juneja

Celie's search for identity : a psychoanalytical developmental reading of Alice Walker's The color purple / Charles L. Proudfit

With ears to hear and eyes to see : Alice Walker's parable in The color purple / Diane Gabrielsen Scholl

Race and domesticity in The color purple / Linda Selzer

Philomena speaks : Alice Walker's revisioning of rape archetypes in The color purple / Martha J. Cutter

Sewing, quilting, knitting : handicraft and freedom in The color purple and A women's story / Catherine E. Lewis.