As an intellectual, Walker addresses the issues of domestic violence, racial disparity and pitiable conditions in poverty, gender bias, interracial relationships, and the children, imposed pregnancies and abortions, rapes and lynching, genital mutilation and cultural terrorism, violence, and non-violence in the Civil Right era and the ecological problems invited by the capitalist imperialism and the question of survival and the need to free mind and body from detrimental wheels of oppression in society. She regards sexism, racial capitalism, and patriarchy as the prime cause of women’s oppression. Walker focuses on racism, sexism, and classism in all her novels and her treatment of these issues in her fiction is organic and integral. These novels delve into the historical oppression of the African Americans in the United States of America and document the intricacies of race and gender in relation to class distinctions responsible for the racial intolerance in South and North America. Alice Walker’s novels from The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) to Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2004) are the historical documents.
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