Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, University of Hamburg, course: African- American Literature, language: English, abstract: First published in 1983, the story of Alice Walker's The Color Purple is set in rural Georgia in the 1930's. It is narrated through the letters of Celie, the protagonist, who begins to write to God in order to tell him about her life, since her step-father sexually abused her and told...