Victimization in Walker’s The Color Purple: A Critical Stylistic Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1401.11Keywords:
victimization, The Color Purple, Alice Walker, ideology, critical stylisticAbstract
The current paper investigates woman’s victimization in Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple from a critical stylistic perspective. It aims to show how victimization is realized linguistically in terms of some toolkits mentioned in Jeffries’s (2010) framework. Additionally, it aims to reveal the ideological implication of these toolkits in the data under study. The study adopts a mixed method of qualitative and quantitative approaches in the analysis. The researchers find out that woman’s victimization is recognized in The Color Purple through various syntactic triggers that symbolize Jeffries’s conceptual tools. Moreover, the study concludes that the tool of Representing Actions, States, Events is the most common among others as it is thoroughly interconnected with the brutal acts that lead to victimization. Further, Walker devotes these toolkits to reveal various negative ideologies that accompany victimization like slavery, oppression, ethnic discrimination and domination.
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