Option 1- Discuss Alice Walker's The Color Purple, applying Patricia Hill Collins' discussion of the negative images of African American women in American culture. How do you feel that Walker disrupts, reforms, or even conforms to the images that Collins describes? Provide specific examples.
Option 2- Discuss Walker's representations and explorations of female sexuality in The Color Purple. Use either Lewis' or The Combahee River Collective's article to further and flesh out your discussion. Provide specific examples.
Option 3- Compare and contrast Walker's novel with either Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God or Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. What general and specific ideas and images of black women's sexuality appear to be developing through these successive writings by African American Women? Provide specific examples and points for comparison.