FEMINISM AND THE EXPRESSION OF ITS BASIC FEATURES IN THE NOVELS OF ALICE WALKER

The purpose of this article is to provide basic information about the movement of feminism and its main peculiarities reflected in the novels of Alice Walker who is famous feminist writer, poet and activist. Her contributions to American literature is great with her popular, best-seller novels and creative work. 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 her people, who have 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 characters. In her creative work, she completely presents that being a black woman is twice as difficult as just being a woman or a black man