Abirami.V.
Ecofeminism, built on transformation and inclusivity aims at reframing the hierarchal dualistic power structure and not annihilating the existing power structure. The progress of Afro-American Women’s fiction is a mirror-image of the intensity to represent the interconnectedness between the subservient nature and the submissive women. Ecofeminism voices against dualism that degenerates one over the other. But when one complements the other, then such a dualistic concept leads to heterogeneity which later evolves as wholeness and fullness. The present study analyses the patriarchs in the Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, their initial domineering position in the fiction, the further progress made by the characters and the course of events which lead them to take an ecofeminist stance and thereby lead a life of harmony and gratification.
Ecofeminism