Symbols in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to give the main information about the life of Alice Walker and her popular novels, which relate to subduing and hiding black women, oppressing them, enslaving them, discriminating against them on the basis of sex, and how they differentiate themselves. She explores the issues of subjugation, sexual separation, self-awareness, awakening, and self-liberation of black women. African-American writer Alice Walker undoubtedly occupies a prominent place in the envy of African-American literature.

          It reflects the struggles and journeys of African American men and women an effort to strengthen and liberate the entire black race.     She is associated with the “survival” of his people, who has been discriminated against, humiliated and humiliated by the white American majority. Walker focuses on black women ‟s survival strategies in a racist white society and a patriarchal black society.    Her personal experiences and observations as a black woman are repeated in her works and her characters. In her skills, Walker deftly demonstrates that being a black woman is twice as difficult as just being a woman or a black man.

Keywords:  Walker, womanism, symbols, black woman, African Literature