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Similarites between Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston

Alice Walker discovered Zora Neale Hurston when she needed some authentic material on voodoo practiced by blacks in the South in the 1930s. "The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff" had so much impact on Walker, she wrote about it repeatedly. The Color Purple has many parallels to Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Walker highly valued the works of Hurston. Walker says about Hurston:

"[Hurston] was exposing not simply an adequate culture but a superior one."

Both authors have extremely similar themes, main characters, and attitudes toward women, especially the black women. They also share a common appreciation for language.

Common Themes

* Uncovering the soul of the black woman
* The rise above sexual and racial oppression for relative peace and independence
* The breakaway from a suffocating, loveless marriage in search for "one's own self."
* The unity of women
* Salvation leads to power

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