Walkers novel the temple of my familiar 1989 is a womanist treatise putting forth the importance of womanist consciousness and womanist spirit. The novel is the logical extension of earlier fiction and a further step in the evolution of walker s female characters. Discourse of womanism in the color purple and the temple of my familiar alice walker publishes her third novel, in 1982. Fanny, for example, faces two unacceptable roles either as a victim of racism and sexism or as a possible perpetrator of retaliatory violence.
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