• Dr.H.Lidiya,

Black women in America are triply burdened. They, suffer from racial, sexual and class prejudices and are forced to occupy a very marginal place in male dominated America, making them feel insignificant, faceless, subservient and devoid of identity. The responsibility of giving them back their rejected humanity and their womanhood falls on the shoulder of black women writers. These writers can be labeled as black womanist writers. Alice Walker is one of those pioneers who believes in the black womanist movement. Alice Walker contends : "Black women now offer varied, live models of how it is possible to live. We have made a new place to move". Walker’s women characters display strength, endurance and resourcefulness in confronting- "the twin afflictions" of racism and sexism and overcoming the devastating circumstances of oppression in their lives.

Blacwomen, Racial, Sexual, Oppression, self-awareness, mental exploitation, Sexual abuse, Selfscorn, Self- fulfilment

"Black Women in America are Triply Burdened in Alice walkers novel The Color Purple", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.703-709, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907985.pdf

"Black Women in America are Triply Burdened in Alice walkers novel The Color Purple", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp703-709, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907985.pdf