The visual reception and relationship between a particular book
cover and the content of that novel plays a significant role in how larger
audience regard the social context of a particular work. Specifically, Alice
Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple
has been a film, a radio broadcast mini-series in Britain as well as a Broadway
musical. Certainly, the various iterations of The Color Purple as a novel covers and movie create distinct
impressions about the work and Walker.
Below, take a look at the compilation and provide comments
on your impressions of the artistic design, the novel, the movie, and Walker as
a writer.
The novel covers with women on the front alert the audience to the racial and gender dynamics of the work. However, the other covers with rural settings and old houses suggest themes that relate to time and place. I think the ranging novel covers may confirm or challenge an audience’s initial bias.
ReplyDeleteGood point. I have yet to read this classic; i wonder what ties the sunflower has with the work. Is the sunflower misleading or appropriate for a cover image?
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