Ecological feminism or ecofeminism is an umbrella term for a variety of different positions concerned with the connection between the unjustified domination of women, people of colour, traditional people, poor people and the unjustified domination of nature. Essentially, Afro-American women belong to the most jeopardized group among all humans as they are both Blacks in a racist society and a woman in the patriarchal society. The present study aims to make an elaborate study on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple on an ecofeminist platform. Celie is the true representation of how nature over the passage of time reorients itself towards harmony and synchronization of the Earth leading to a holistic reformation in establishing a total balance in …show more content…
They are left with no choice other than yield to the affliction and torment for centuries together Walker reproves that the earth has become the nigger of the world and will assuredly undo us if we don’t learn to care for it, revere it, and even worship it. . In an interview with John O’Brien Walker admits that she is committed to the cause of black women but equally to the cause of nature. The Color Purple published in 1983 is Walker’s third novel which focuses on the physical pain, mental agony, violence and death of black women narrated in a time-honoured epistolary technique. The fiction spans to around thirty years in the life cycle of Celie, a naïve Southern black girl who later emancipates into a strong black woman fully realizing her potential physically, economically and spiritually by reconnecting with the nature. Alice Walker palpably portrays the plight of Celie during her adolescence when she was repeatedly beaten up and raped by her step father, who forcing himself on her, threatened her stating: “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy”.(3) and hence Celie chose to give vent to her forced silence through a series of letters to God who, because of her experiences, she described with patriarchal, abusive