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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the major points and characters in Walker's work. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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fundamental to the progression of her personal development and demonstrate the impacts of culture, race and gender. At the same time, Tashi also struggles to unite two almost divided
segments of her persona, and her struggle to identify herself as both African and American is also a determinant of her own self-development. Readers of Walkers works might remember
the that Tashi was a briefly eluded to character in The Color Purple, and the correlation between Tashi character as a young African woman, an Olinka, and the memory of
her existence as an almost symbolic representation of strength and identity in womanhood represented in a comparison of the two works underscores the nature of Tashis identity in Possessing the
Secret Joy. But Tashis character is the primary focus of the progression of actions in this newer work, and becomes the embodiment of struggles in identification in both gender-based
elements and national persona. Walker uses the ritual of female circumcision as a defining point in the life of Tashi, recognizing
that participating in this act will define her as an African woman, becoming sexually joyless and loosing spiritual and physical identity. Tashi does not enter into this ritual identification
without struggle: she recognizes that if she chooses to participate in this damaging physical ritual that she will define herself as an Olinka, and that this identification will conflict
with her role and image as an American woman. Tashi, an African woman married to the son of Christian missionaries, develops her persona in the shadow of this Christian life,
and as a result, is spared the childhood rite of female genital circumcision that is practiced within the Olinkan and many other tribes of Africa. Tashis own sister bled to
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