Abstract Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 190s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. Throughout the novel, the assertion of what the African-American femininity is compared to is the exploration of African-American male struggle with masculinity. The idea of femininity among African-American women is focused around the abilities of the husband to care for the wife and Family.

1. Book, Movie, Musical and Radio

3. Abstract
• Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-
American women in the southern United States in the 190s, addressing numerous
issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.
• Throughout the novel, the assertion of what the African-American femininity is
compared to is the exploration of African-American male struggle with masculinity.
The idea of femininity among African-American women is focused around the
abilities of the husband to care for the wife and Family.

4. 1 - Book:
• 1982 epistolary novel by American authorAlice Walker
• Won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and
the National BookAward for Fiction.
• Has been the frequent target of censors and appears
on the American Library Association list of the 100
Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at
number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit
content, particularly in terms of violence.

5. 2 - Movie
• Whoopi Goldberg as Celie
• OprahWinfrey as Sofia – first time at cinema
• Dany Glover as Mister____ – his name apper a
lot of time in Evebody Hates Chris likeTonya’s
favourite actor.

6. • Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the film tells the story
of a young African American girl named Celie Harris and shows the problems
African American women faced during the early 190s, including
poverty, racism, and sexis m. Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth
through the help of two strong female companions.
• The film had changed or eliminated much of the book's defense
of lesbianism.

7. Academy Awards nominations
• Best Picture
• Best Actress in a Leading Role -WhoopiGoldberg
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Margaret Avery
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role - OprahWinfrey
• Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
• Best Cinematography - Allen Daviau
• Best Art Direction – Set Decoration - J. Michael Riva, BoWelch, Linda DeScenna
• Best Costume Design - Aggie Guerard Rodgers
• Best Makeup - Ken Chase
• Best Music,Original Score
• Best Original Song ("Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)")

8. 3 – Radio Adaptation
• In 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of the novel in ten 15-
minute episodes as a Woman's Hour serial, with Nadine Marshall as Celie.
The script was by Patricia Cumper, and in 2009 the production received
the Sony Radio Academy Awards Silver Drama Award.

9. 4 - Musical Adaptation
• On December 1, 2005, opened atThe BroadwayTheatre in NewYork City.
• The show was produced by Scott Sanders, Quincy Jones, Harvey Weinstein,
and OprahWinfrey, who was also an investor.
• It garnered five 2006 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, including
Outstanding Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score. That same
year, the show was nominated for eleven Tony Awards, including Best
Musical, Best Original Score Written for the Theater, and Best Leading
Actress in a Musical (LaChanze).