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For Walker the use of language is to do with an expression of self inopposition to gender oppression, of presenting self in opposition to alanguage which is not your own.Explain how this statement informs your reading of The Colour Purple (TCP), andThe Yellow cover (TYW).In TCP, written in first person narrative, Walker uses the epistolarystyle of writing, giving authority to the voice of Celie and enablingthe reader to accept her as having real presence and experience. Inher opening garner to God, it is obvious she has no self-confidence,crossing herself out with a line through I am (p.3 TCP). Because her fuss is so ill, Celie becomes a sexual commodity for her Pa,epitomising a male dominated society, where women accepted patriarchy.This epistolary style of writing was popular in the eighteenth deoxycytidine monophosphate novel sentiment, morally edifying the reader, with authoritybeing given to the protagonist, in this case, Celie. Celie writes toGod, for lack of any living perso n with whom to share her troubles(p.155 Literature and Gender (LG). She is not able to defend herselfdue to her multiple jeopardy, of being a woman, being black and beinguneducated. Celie is a woman who, through being raped and shell byher Pa, is taught to fear men and devalue herself (p.55 LG). Asher letters progress, she grows in confidence within and about her ownlanguage. In an early letter to God, written when her Pa stopped hergoing to school after he got her pregnant the first time and heryounger sister continued to go, shows how she wanted to be educated,I feel bad sometime Nettie done pass me in learnin (p.12 TCP). Lateron, she meets Shug Avery, her husbands mistress, who helps her findconf... ...aper and uses it to liberateherself from the normal domestic utilization expected of her, and from thepatronising husbands language, such as What is it little girl?(p.353 TYW). Through her hysteria, she interprets the patterns on thewallpaper with a female language which is adv isedly illogical,Emotional, non-linear, intuitive, as opposed to rational and logical.She writes, There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like abroken neck and two bulbous look stare at you upside down (p.351 LG).Both women are using their own language against male authority.BibliographyGoodman L. Approaching Literature. Literature and Gender.Walker A. (1983) The Colour Purple. spacious Britain The Womens Press.Audio/TVAudio Cassette 2 Women and Poetry AC2121Audio Cassette 3 Gender and Drama AC2122TV 2 Alcott and Woolf, Gilman, and Walker.