SOURCE: Walton, Priscilla L. “‘What She Got to Sing About?’: Comedy and The Color Purple.” ARIEL 21, no. 2 (April 1990): 59-74.
In the following essay, Walton defines comic theory and classifies The Color Purple as a comedic novel based on examples from the work.
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