Resistance as a Secret of Joy in Alice Walker's Novel: The Color Purple

Abstract

Resistance is the quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it.  But here in the world famous Pulitzer prize winning novel of well known Afro-American author Alice Walker The Color Purple, this air is the polluted air of racial and sexual affliction, the germs of which are polluting and spoiling the lives of poor Afro-American people. So in the novels of Walker, resistance is not an ordinary term but a key to unfold the path of liberation, self-existence and above all of a beautiful planet established on democratic principles. It is a tool used by the victims of fair color and powerful sex to save them and in true sense we can say, to make them and their coming generations free from the long time bounded shackles of slavery and exploitation.