This paper contends that not only do these scenes represent black violence inacted against other blacks but they also serve to underscore the narrator's invisibility, two major themes of the novel. No additional references are cited. A 5 page essay, using the author's own statements, which analyzes the concept of invisibleness' that appears throughout the book. The primary source is cited. A 7 page paper comparing Alice Walker's The Color Purple to Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit.
Bibliography lists one source.
A 5 page paper looking at the antebellum slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs. The paper shows how, despite the fact that Jacobs hid in a crawl space for seven years to escape an abusive master, she preferred this to actually living with the constant threat of abuse. Bibliography lists one source.